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I saw the economist chart, and am responding to tptacek advocating for a specific _spending_ based spreadsheet. But _no_, the Economist category of "Healthcare
by abeppu 1y ago
I saw the economist chart, and am responding to tptacek advocating for a specific _spending_ based spreadsheet.
But _no_, the Economist category of "Healthcare Services" includes hospitals, insurers and PBMs and other "middlemen" (see the last paragraph of the article), and so based on their analysis we cannot separate out hospital margins.
- tptacek 1y agoThe Economist charts are a rhetorical tool designed to highlight a point they're making (I think the points are valid and the charts are good and interesting). The spreadsheet I'm "advocating" is less like that, and more like the tables in a 10K filing. It's simply an accounting of where US health dollars go, and where the money comes from. I'm not saying that spreadsheet rebuts any claim this article makes (though it might). I'm saying it's a remarkably simple and comprehensive piece of data to fit onto a single screen, and when we discuss health care economics, it's extraordinarily helpful to have that data available.