Is The United States’ High Spending For Cancer Care Really Worth It? (Huffington post)
* US patients live longer after diagnosis than in Europe -study
* Experts question validity of data
* Analysis fuels debate over U.S. healthcare spending
By Sharon Begley
NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) – With the United States spending more on
healthcare than any other country – $2.5 trillion, or just over $8,000 per
capita, in 2009 – the question has long been, is it worth it? At least for
spending on cancer, a controversial new study answers with an emphatic “yes.”
Cancer patients in the United States who were diagnosed from 1995 to 1999
lived an average 11.1 years after that, compared with 9.3 years for those in
10 countries in Europe, researchers led by health economist Tomas Philipson of
the University of Chicago reported in an analysis published Monday in the
journal Health Affairs.
Those extra years came at a price. By 1999 (the last year the researchers
analyzed), the United States was spending an average of $70,000 per cancer
case (up 49 percent since 1983), compared with $44,000 in Europe (up 16
percent). Using standard figures for an extra year of life, the researchers
concluded that the value of the U.S. survival gains outweighed …
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