Search Tag: U.S. healthcare system

2024 13 Jun

  The U.S. healthcare system confronts significant challenges that are straining medical professionals. Issues like administrative burdens, staffing shortages, and reimbursement difficulties contribute to high levels of stress and burnout among physicians. Despite efforts to achieve more with less, including lower pay, average doctor salaries increased...Read more

2020 07 Jan

In 2017, Americans spent $812 billion on healthcare paperwork (over a third, 34.2%, of total expenditures for doctor visits, hospitals, long-term care and health insurance). Of those, $600 billion would have been saved had the U.S. cut their administrative costs to Canadian levels, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal...Read more