September 2014 | Joel C. Cantor | Opinion: What Will It Take for New Jersey Healthcare to Get Better?
The data on New Jersey healthcare has long looked pretty bad. We have among the highest health-services spending per resident among the states (and the U.S. has roughly double the average per capita spending of other developed nations).
One reason for our high cost is the way we use services. Examining Medicare data, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care shows that New Jersey is an outlier in the intensity of hospital and specialist-services utilization compared with other states.