- Medicine and Public Issues
High and Rising Health Care Costs. Part 1: Seeking an Explanation

Figure 3. Values are U.S. dollars (purchasing power parity international dollars). Data obtained from the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development .
Health expenditures and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, 1998.(1)
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Ann Intern Med
May 17, 2005
vol. 142
no. 10
847-854