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The United States is one of only a few large countries in the world without a universal system of health care. The U.S. has higher prices for most health care services and prescription drugs, according to available internationally comparable data. Meanwhile, utilization of several services, including physician consultations and hospital stays, is lower than in many comparable countries. Use of some services, such as C‐sections and knee replacements, is higher in the U.S. than in similar countries (Sawyer, McDermott, & Kaiser, 2019). In the US we have fewer office visits and shorter average hospital stays, yet the U.S. overall spends twice as much per person on health care than do comparable countries (Sawyer et al., 2019).