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