title: US health-care system faces cost and insurance crises. Rising costs, growing numbers of uninsured, and quality gaps trouble world's most expensive health-care system.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McCarthy
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States