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aaavl2821 on Feb 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Health

The largest driver of cost in the US healthcare system is actually hospital care (30% of spend) while drug costs account for ~10%

Not to say that drug prices aren't too high but they are just one piece of the puzzle

tdfx on Feb 1, 2018 [–]

Where could one find more sources for this kind of information?

aaavl2821 on Feb 1, 2018 | [–]

page 33 of this (CDC report) shows breakdown of spend by category: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus16.pdf#093

here are the CMS stats for 2016: https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

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