Measuring the US Health Care System: A Cross National

exceeds the following requirements:

Using current data, determine whether or not the United States still has the highest level of spending among OECD countries. Discuss trends in data concerning spending and determine if rates are higher or lower.

Discuss the impact of technology and its relationship to spending in the United States vs. health outcomes.

Support and justify your opinions with credible reference sources. Include three to five peer-reviewed articles as reference sources.

Assignment Required Reading: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2010/
Jun/1412_Anderson_measuring_US_hlt_care_sys_intl_ib.pdf

Your paper should include the following:

Four to six pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.

Include five (5) current quality references, three (3) of these references must be peer-reviewed articles. All references should be five year old or less. Remember, you must support your thinking/opinions and prior knowledge with references; all facts must be supported; in-text references used throughout the assignment must be included in an APA-formatted reference list.

Review the grading rubric, which can be accessed from the Course Information page.

Formatted according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.

Reach out to your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.