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"...High health expenditures in the United States may also reflect to some extent high costs beyond
those strictly related to the delivery of health-care services. Angrisano et al. (2007) estimate that US health
expenditure in 2005 was $477 billion (out of a total of $1.9 trillion) higher than in peer countries (Japan,
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) after adjusting for GDP per capita and that 36%
of this amount was attributable to higher intermediation costs10 ($98 billion) and to higher profits and taxes
on them ($75 billion)...."


Angrisano, C., D. Farrell, B. Kocher, M. Laboissiere, S. Parker (2007), “Accounting for the Cost of Health
Care in the United States,” McKinsey Global Institute, January.