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$5.3 Trillion in Healthcare. Are We Getting Enough Back? with Aaron Fields
The United States spent $5.3 trillion on healthcare in 2024, approximately $15,474 per person. Healthcare spending represented nearly 18% of the entire U.S. economy.
With a figure of this magnitude, one question is hard to ignore: what are we getting in return?
This was one of the central questions in the conversation between Mario Carrasco and Aaron Fields, MHA, ACC, on The New Mainstream Podcast. For Fields, understanding where value is being created within all this spending is fundamental to thinking strategically about the future of healthcare.
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