U.S. Health Care Resources

HCS 310 and everyone else

"According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the United States is projected to spend more than $2.5 trillion on health care in 2009, or $8,160 perU.S. resident. Health spending in 2009 is projected to account for 17.6 percent of gross domestic product." (The citation for this information is at the end of this guide.)

This guide highlights free Web sites with data and information on issues relevant to the national health care debate, including health care cost, coverage, expenditure, access, delivery, utilization, disparities in quality, and outcomes. This report was prepared by Shikha Sharma, the business, economics, and legal studies librarian at the University of Connecticut. It was published in the College and Research Library News September 2009.

Here is the link to this report. All of the sites mentioned in the report can be link directly from the report. Students in HCS U.S. Health Care Delivery are exploring the health care system. We hope they will add comments to this post about information sources they find.

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