DYNAMICS OF HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The novelty of the work is seen in the combination of theoretical and comparative historical analysis with the cyclical socio-economic development of American society, in relation to the subject of this study - the evolution of US healthcare. The identification and justification of trends in the evolution of American healthcare in terms of ensuring the effectiveness, safety, quality and availability of medical services is based on the traditional methodological basis of statistical and economic analysis of the average annual growth of the main indicators of the development of American healthcare during the formation of its modern institutional, managerial and organizational-functional structure in 1951-2020. The results reflect the general direction of the evolution of US healthcare as a haphazard complex mechanism that functions in direct resonance with the socio-economic cycle.
Keywords: US healthcare, healthcare efficiency, quality and availability of medical services, theoretical and comparative historical analysis, cyclical socio-economic development of the United States, relevant market of medical services, health insurance, potential and real healthcare resources.
Highlights:
♦ an empirical analysis of the dynamics of indicators of long-term development of US healthcare is carried out, revealing the results of its development in 1951-2020 within the framework of the concept of free market relations in the relevant market of medical goods and services;
♦ trends in the development of US healthcare in the context of extreme commercialization of medicine and patients ` insurance dependence on market conditions with weak state regulation are identified and justified, revealing the generally inefficient and extremely inaccessible nature of providing full-fledged medical services to the country`s population.
Valery N. Minat, Candidate of Geography, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Management of the Ryazan State Agrotechnological University Named after P.A. Kostychev.