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What a Texas town can teach us about health care.

This is an excellent article from the New Yorker on the reason why health care is so expensive in the US. It takes a good look at why one of the poorer counties in the country has an average medicare expenditure that double the national average and 25% more than the income per capita in the county. And it is not because they have better equipment (they don’t), or newer hospitals (they don’t) or better doctors (they don’t) or are even substantially better than other places in the state with similar demographics that cost half as much (they aren’t)

Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker