The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in life span and contributes to an estimated 45,000 deaths a year.
Why the high cost? The U.S. has a fee-for-service system—paying medical providers piecemeal for appointments, surgery, and the like. That can lead to unneeded treatment that doesn’t reliably improve a patient’s health. Says Gerard Anderson, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who studies health insurance worldwide, “More care does not necessarily mean better care.”
~Michelle Andrews
This is just one more reason that I’m a big fan of Obamacare…more HERE.
Source: National Geographic
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[...] We keep hearing this meme being parroted by conservatives and it goes something like this: “America has the best healthcare system in the world.” My response … if you can afford it. America spends more than double what the average country spends on its healthcare for its citizens … and our results are worse. That’s not debatable. It’s empirical and backed by fact based facts. We’ve shared this graph HERE: [...]
[...] And we know that the conservative vision which we have been living for the past several decades has left Americans paying more for healthcare and getting worse results compared to most advanced countries. You can read about that HERE. [...]