“Health care’s big spending mismatch”

This week, Axios reported on new data that shows “the health care services that rack up the highest out-of-pocket costs for patients aren’t the same ones that cost the most to the health care system overall.” While hospital care eats up the lion’s share of health care spending—a staggering $1.1 trillion—just 3% of those costs are passed on to patients. Meanwhile, insurers force patients to pick up nearly 15% of the costs of their prescription drugs, even thoug