U.S. Last in Health Care Among 7 Industrialized Countries LiveScience Staff LiveScience.com Sat Jun 26, 2:50 pm ET
Although its citizens pay more for health care, the United States ranks last on several measures of health system performance compared with six other industrialized nations, according to a new report. Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom all beat out the United States when it came to health care quality, efficiency, access, equity and the ability for citizens to lead long, healthy lives, says the report, from the Commonwealth Fund.. While there is room for improvement in every country, the United States stands out for not getting good value for its health care dollars, ranking last despite spending $7,290 per capita on health care in 2007 compared with the $3,837 spent per capita in the Netherlands, which ranked first overall. "It is disappointing, but not surprising that, despite our significant investment in health care, the U.S. continues to lag behind other countries," said Commonwealth Fund President and study author Karen Davis. However, some researchers have noted that U.S. citizens pay more for heath care partly because they get sick more often than people in other industrialized countries and partly because they get more thorough treatment for some diseases. The U.S.'s rank in terms of access to health care could be improved if the health care reform bill, known as the Affordable Care Act, does indeed extend health insurance coverage to 32 million currently uninsured Americans, as has been estimated, the authors say. Earlier editions of the Commonwealth report, produced in 2004, 2006 and 2007, showed similar results. This year's version incorporates data from patient and physician surveys conducted in seven countries in 2007, 2008 and 2009..................................>>>>................>>>>............http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/uslastinhealthcareamong7industrializedcountries
....yes, that is why they all come here for care. Because it is last.
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Reports always compare countries with much smaller populations than what the US has. We have more addicts,drunks, obese people, people who don't exercise, and people who just don't care about their health until it's too late and all the best health-care in the world won't help them by then. GB is correct we have the best health-care in the world it's the population that needs to be motivated to care about their health.
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