According to the American Medical Association, individuals in the United States spent $4464.4 billion on services related to healthcare in 2022. The top costs were hospital visits and clinician services, but how is the rest of the money distributed across medical services? How much does the individual pay on personal health expenditures, or on prescription drugs? When people pay for health insurance too, how much do they tend to pay?
Anyone interested in pursuing medicine, healthcare, public health, or policy research in the field should check out this article to learn more about the healthcare system, expenses, and trends in spending over the past few years: Trends in health care spending.
