U.S. Health Care System Ranks Lowest in International Survey
Source: CBS News
U.S. health care system ranks lowest in international survey
JESSICA FIRGER /CBS NEWS
Jun 16, 2014 3:32 PM EDT
The U.S. spends more money on health care compared with other industrialized countries, but Americans still get the least bang for their buck -- and many still don't have access to care -- according to a report just published by the Commonwealth Fund. The report from the private health care research foundation examined data on expenditures, delivery and access to health care services among 11 industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S.
Overall, the U.K. and Switzerland were rated highest for factors that included quality, access, efficiency and equity of health care. The U.S., Canada and France overall ranked lowest. The U.S. was found to perform worst in areas concerning cost of care, efficiency, equity and overall health of its citizens, even though health care expenditures were highest per capita compared with the other 10 countries in the report.
In 2011, the U.S. spent $8,508 per capita in health care expenditures, compared with $3,405 per capita in the U.K., which was the country with the highest ranked health care system overall.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-health-care-system-ranks-lowest-in-international-survey/
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)a combination of social security, Medicare, and the voting rights act all rolled into one.
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progressoid
(50,008 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Different criteria give vastly different outcomes:
American Public Health Association
WHO
These reports are from different years, but it's unlikely that France could be the world's best in 2000 and 3rd worst in the most recent survey.
The only consistency in all of them in that the US is dead last.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)IMO, we could bring the for profit ripoff 'health care' system to the Supreme Court and have it declared unconstitutional. We need to get rid of the profit-loving middlemen.
Any big Legal groups, care to give this a try?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- I don't even think we technically have a healthcare system.
K&R
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)to extort three trillion dollars from working people while parcelling out the world's worst healthcare to most of us (40 million do without) and their propaganda arm convinces former dems that it's great. Sounds like a well oiled machine to me.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)I exaggerate but, not by much. A brand new CNA in my area starts at $8.50/hour and is only a dime per year of experience.
1000words
(7,051 posts)As mandated health insurance programs go, I'm sure we're the best out there.
U.S.A. ... U.S.A. ... U.S.A.!!!
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Insurance is not health care, it is a gatekeeper designed to deny healthcare to maximize profits. Our "system" uses insurance to reduce actual health care received, so if you think about it, when they measure health care outcomes ours coming last is an excellent metric to prove our system is the best at what it does!
If we had a health care system instead, with the money we spend we would likely have the best. Perhaps someday we will have politicians working on health care rather than an insurance racket devised by the Heritage Foundation to make people rich.
A fella' can dream can't he?
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)health care is way down the list of objectives of our system, so comparing it to countries where care is the main goal is unfair.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)the ideology, agenda, and whims of right-wing interests, ala Koch. Another decade or two of having the gipper's vision of America crammed down the throats of the masses will leave a mostly wrecked infrastructure and society imo.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Healthcare spending is $1,703 per capita in South Korea in 2012 according to World Bank
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP
savalez
(3,517 posts)Red States!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)'for profit' health care system & 'for profit' prisons, and 'for profit' schools.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)and unfortunately it's been too many times lately, the first thing the nurses and CNAs do when she gets assigned a room, before they even take her vital signs, is to examine and photograph any bruises, bedsores, or other blemishes on her body. They've freely admitted to me that this is urgent hospital policy, that the number one priority is to prevent legal liability. The hospital doesn't want to be sued with claims the hospital stay was responsible. They won't let my mother get out of bed to use the commode because they're afraid of legal liability if she falls, although immobility is unhealthy. They put her on a catheter even knowing that this causes urinary tract infections because they are short-handed at all times in today's hospital setting and can't afford the time to clean her several times a day.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)we have made are not sufficient enough AND the Republicans would prefer to take this
away from you.
aceofblades
(73 posts)The study mentions that it used, as sources of information, various studies and survey's from 2011-2013(apparently the study occurs every 4 years) so I think we will know more going forward as to whether, or to what degree, there are changes after most parts of the ACA are in effect. (many signups, and plan activations occurred in 2014). The data will tell the story (what ever it is).