LymyVoyageHealthcare Costs & Spending
What health care costs, compared across countries: national spending per person, the share households pay out of pocket, catastrophic and medical-debt exposure, and the wide price variation for identical procedures between systems. Includes how headline cost figures are constructed and where published comparisons quietly change definitions.
Why 2027 Employer Health Forecasts Range 8.2% to 11.1%
Five surveys of US employers project 2027 health benefit costs rising 8.2% to 11.1%. Most of the spread is one choice -- whether the figure is measured before or after employers shift cost to workers -- and CMS actuaries forecast roughly half as much.
Catastrophic Health Costs in Europe: Under 2% to Over 14%
Catastrophic health spending affects under 2% of households in Sweden and the UK but over 14% in Latvia and Ukraine. The same country can appear at 2.1%, 8% and over 10% depending on which threshold the dataset uses -- here is what each figure measures.