Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Ezra Klein - An insurance industry CEO explains why American health care costs so much

by Ezra Klein in the Washington Post

On Friday, I sat down with Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson to talk about health-care reform. The conversation was long and ranging and will take a while to transcribe. But before we really got into the weeds, Halvorson handed me an astonishing packet of charts. The material was put together by the International Federation of Health Plans, which is pretty much what it sounds like: an association of insurance plans in different countries. But it showed something I've never seen before, at least not at this level of detail: prices.

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Download Full Report International Federation of Health Plans 2009 Comparative Price Report Medical and Hospital Fees by Country

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