{"id":4361,"date":"2025-03-13T05:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2025-03-13T05:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:12:26","slug":"why-are-u-s-healthcare-costs-so-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Why are U.S. healthcare costs so high?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/healthcare-costs-are-not-a-simple-fix\/\">Incidental Economist<\/a> website has a helpful explainer video.  The truth is that higher cost is due to both higher prices and more utilization of healthcare goods and services.  It is not caused by any one stakeholder within the healthcare ecosystem.  Reducing health care costs would require significant\u2013and often painful\u2013tradeoffs.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incidental Economist website has a helpful explainer video. The truth is that higher cost is due to both higher prices and more utilization of healthcare goods and services. It is not caused by any one stakeholder within the healthcare ecosystem. Reducing health care costs would require significant\u2013and often painful\u2013tradeoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}