Health spending for 2012 is estimated to have totaled $2.8 trillion, 17.9% of GDP, $8,952 per capita.
Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show By Chad Terhune and Ben Poston
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765625209/Graphic-shows-what-your-lif...
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/what-hospitals-charge-the-u...
March 15, 2013
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/experts-debate-all-payer-setups-vs...
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/31/business/la-fi-high-price-knee-2...
Pyle: Stop paying medical ransoms
By George Pyle
| The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Mar 01 2013
Two articles from the Deseret News recently illustrate the price problem in American health care:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/04/170883349/health-care-spending...