John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute backs up the following claim with data:

The United States continues to experience a long-term trend of loss of patients’ control of health spending. Attempts to reverse this with tools such as Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Flexible Spending Arrangements, Medical Savings Accounts, and Health Savings Accounts have not resulted in systemic change.

As a result, Americans control less of our own health spending than do residents of other developed countries. After ObamaCare is defeated, reversing his long-term trend must be the top priority of the real health reform that replaces it.

Read the whole post: What is Unique about U.S. Health Care? Lack of Patient Control of Spending | John Goodmans Health Policy Blog | NCPA.org.