• Health affairs · Jul 2007

    What should a country spend on health care?

    • William D Savedoff.
    • Social Insight, Portland, Maine, USA. savedoff@socialinsight.org
    • Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Jul 1; 26 (4): 962-70.

    AbstractPer capita health spending across countries ranges by more than 100 to 1, leading many people to ask, "What should a country spend on health care?" This paper discusses four approaches to this question and demonstrates how each approach, in effect, answers a slightly different question, all of which are important to public policy decisions regarding health care spending. The paper also addresses a commonly cited World Health Organization statement that countries should spend 5 percent of national income on health care services.

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