The US has an extraordinarily complex, non-standardized set of arrangements for paying for health care, where physicians and hospitals must handle many different billing forms and keep records to justify bills, making administration more expensive than any social benefit it generates.

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Henry Aaron

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that results in a system that is very expensive and very complicated and I think costs more for administration than any kind of social benefit we get from it

Source

Henry Aaron on Health Care Costs 11/15/2007EconTalk
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