Relative Cost Per Person

United States: 250% times the average of other countries

Other free-market countries:
Their cost is 40% of what we pay per person

Basis: OECD Health Data 2009
       Position at the bar chart.

Sources and Additional Information

See OECD Health Data 2009 for the source of the OECD data. The bar chart data is based on available data for the 5 years 2003 through 2007. The OECD Health Data 2009 web page provides more explanation about how the data is reported. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an organization of 31 industrialized countries.

OECD is the 30-member organization of industrialized countries called the “Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development” (OECD). The other 29 countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.