AHA blog: Analysis gets it wrong on health care spending
A recent analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation provides an incomplete picture of U.S. spending on health care while downplaying the “immense role” that drug costs play, writes Aaron Wesolowski, AHA’s vice president of policy research, analytics and strategy, for the AHA Stat Blog. Read more.
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