Worth It?

At $3.9 trillion, in 2017 alone we spent nearly 4x Apple’s net worth on healthcare. US hospital prices are about 60% higher than those In Europe. About one in five Americans on Medicare have surgery during the last month of their life. Emergency room visits make up about one-third of healthcare costs in the U.S. and about one in five adults visit an E.R. each year. These and other eye-popping facts are cited in a November 2018 overview of rising costs by The Balance.