This chart collection looks at the availability of hospital resources and healthcare professionals in the United States and similarly wealthy countries. A related chart collection examines how the U.S.’s healthcare resources factor into the nation’s preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic. The availability of healthcare resources (e.g. medical professionals, technology, and other infrastructure) can affect the functioning […]| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
This chart collection explores National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
This chart collection explores how health spending is expected to grow in coming years. In 2024, per capita health spending growth is estimated to have slowed to 4.5%.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
This chart collection examines recent trends in healthcare utilization and spending using a variety of data sources.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Across a wide variety of measures of quality, the U.S. health system appears to perform worse than peer nations on more indicators than it does better. Across a wide variety of measures of quality, the U.S. health system appears to perform worse than peer nations on more indicators than it does better. However, inconsistent and imperfect metrics make it difficult to firmly assess system-wide health quality.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Total health spending is a function of both price paid to providers or for drugs and the volume of services used. These charts explore prices and use of health services in the U.S. relative to comparable countries (those with both a total GDP above the median for OECD countries and a per capita GDP greater […]| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
In June 2024, medical inflation (3.3%) outpaced inflation in the overall economy (3.0%) for the first time since the beginning of 2021.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Unemployment in the United States has been at or below 4% since November 2021. The health sector, along with the rest of the economy, saw a sharp drop in revenues and employment at the onset of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. Health services utilization dropped precipitously as providers cancelled elective care and patients practicing […]| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
In this chart collection, we examine how U.S. health spending compares to health spending in other OECD countries that are similarly large and wealthy, based on median GDP and median GDP per capita. For this analysis, we reviewed the OECD Health Statistics database and the CMS National Health Expenditure Accounts data.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Although most adults are in good health and have health insurance, more than 1 in 4 adults (28%) reported delaying or foregoing healthcare due to cost.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
In a given year, a small portion of the population is responsible for a very large percentage of total health spending. We tend to focus on averages when discussing health spending, but individuals’ health status – and thus their need to access and utilize healthcare – varies over the course of their lifetimes. In fact, very few people have spending around the average. This collection of charts explores trends in health spending variation across the population through an analysis of the...| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among comparable countries, but spends twice as much as similar countries on healthcare per person, on average.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker