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US Healthcare costs as a percentage of GDP
(Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States)

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Abstract
A number of large employers and public purchasers founded the Leapfrog Group in 2000 in an attempt to consolidate the purchaser voice and engage consumers and clinicians in improving health care quality. Drawing on evidence-based medicine, Leapfrog publicly releases information about the extent to which hospitals are adopting three safety “leaps” with the theoretical capacity to prevent thousands of deaths. Although the group has grown rapidly and achieved national recognition, employer-based initiatives historically have struggled to create changes in health care.
(Adapted from: content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/1/228.full)

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a) Medicare
•Insurance for the senior age group of people that have disabilities and permanent kidney failure
b) Medicaid
•Form of health insurance available to people and families with limited income

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• Prices of healthcare can vary significantly due to the freedom of the healthcare provider
• Americans have to cope mostly with the prices of healthcare on their own and are expected to buy medical insurance however not many people can afford medical insurance
• makes it harder for social economic status groups to pay for the much needed healthcare
• it is harder for small firms to provide financial healthcare benefits to workers
• Insurance companies operate like profit-making companies they usually give insurance to the healthy and employed and not the poor and the sick as they will incur more costs causing health care to be denied to those who need it most

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Prescription Drug Pricing

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Ranking of Healthcare Systems
(Adapted from: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/2014/jun/us-health-system-ranks-last)

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Prices for healthcare goods and services are set freely by agreement between patients and healthcare providers, and the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority
The US government neither intervenes in the setting of prices by healthcare service providers, nor interfere with the choice of healthcare service options by citizens.
Prices can vary significantly due to the freedom of the healthcare worker to decide on the prices.