Simanis J G
Office of International Policy, Social Security Administration.
Soc Secur Bull. 1987 Oct;50(10):19-24.
This article is based on the findings of a study developed to compare health care costs in the United States during 1970-80 with those of six other industrially advanced countries--Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Although health care expenditures in the United States have traditionally been relatively high, as a share of gross national product, they were exceeded in 1980 in West Germany and Sweden and equaled by the Netherlands. All the countries experienced increases in health care spending that outpaced inflation in other sectors of the economy. For the decade as a whole, the United States encountered a slower rate of growth than most of the other countries, both in terms of actual expenditures and when adjusted for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. As the decade progressed, however, most of the other countries succeeded in slowing their rate of increase to a greater degree than did the United States. The data also suggest that wage inflation was less of a factor in raising the cost of health care in the United States than was the case in most of the other countries.
本文基于一项研究的结果，该研究旨在比较1970年至1980年期间美国与其他六个工业发达国家（加拿大、法国、德意志联邦共和国、荷兰、瑞典和英国）的医疗保健成本。尽管美国的医疗保健支出传统上相对较高，占国民生产总值的比例较大，但在1980年，西德和瑞典的这一比例超过了美国，荷兰则与之持平。所有国家的医疗保健支出增长速度都超过了经济其他部门的通货膨胀率。就整个十年而言，美国无论是实际支出还是按消费者价格指数衡量的通货膨胀调整后，其增长速度都比大多数其他国家慢。然而，随着这十年的推进，大多数其他国家成功地将其增长速度放缓至比美国更大的程度。数据还表明，在美国，工资通货膨胀对医疗保健成本上升的影响小于大多数其他国家。
