Health Care Value Comparability Study: Executive Summary

According to the Business Roundtable Health Care Value Comparability Study, a new measure of the “value” (cost and performance) of the U.S. health care system relative to our competitors’ systems on a weighted scale, the workers and employers of the United States face a 23 percent “value gap” relative to five leading economic competitors and a 46 percent “value gap” compared with emerging competitors.

New Study Shows Health Care Costs Put U.S. Workers at Significant Disadvantage Compared with Global Competitors

Business Roundtable today released the first annual Business Roundtable Health Care Value Comparability Study, which shows that the costs and performance of the U.S. health care system have put America’s companies and workers at a significant competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace.

Health Care Value Comparability Study: Full Report

According to the Business Roundtable Health Care Value Comparability Study, a new measure of the “value” (cost and performance) of the U.S. health care system relative to our competitors’ systems on a weighted scale, the workers and employers of the United States face a 23 percent “value gap” relative to five leading economic competitors and a 46 percent “value gap” compared with emerging competitors.

Health Care Value Comparability Study: Fast Facts

A quick reference for Business Roundtable’s Health Care Value Comparability Study

Health Care Value Comparability Study: Call Transcript

Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Harold McGraw III, Chairman of Business Roundtable and Chairman, President and CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies hosted a teleconference on March 12, 2009 to unveil Business Roundtable’s first annual Business Roundtable Health Care Value Comparability Study. The study shows that the costs and performance of the U.S. health care system have put America’s companies and workers at a significant competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace.