Total Cost of Health Care
United States
(Source: World Almanac 2006)
2002 Gross Domestic Product = $10.487.0 trillion
Total National Health Costs = $ 1.553.0 trillion
% of GDP = 14.81%
Average Production Worker Income = $ 26,312.-
Total No. of Physicians = 853,187
% of Total Health Costs = 21.9%
Total Cost of Physicians Services = $340,107,000.-
Average Physician Income = $398,631.-
= 15 times average workers income
(German Physicians’ Income = 3.5 times average workers income)
2003 Gross Domestic Product = $10.971.0 trillion
Total National Health Costs = $ 1.679 trillion
% of GDP - 15.30%
2006 8.0% GDP Britain Salaried Physicians = 53% of U.S.
7.9% Japan Fee-for-service = 52% of U.S.
11.1% Germany Fee-for-service = 73% of U.S.
9.9% Canada Fee-for-service = 65% of U.S.
15.2% U.S.A. Fee-for-service