“…The U.S. spends far and away more on health care than any other. And yet it has among the lowest life expectancies of any developed country. People live longer in pretty much every country in Europe, including Greece, where the economy has been wracked by austerity for years.
“What bothers me most is not that we’re all the way on the right, or even that we are lower than we should be,” Aaron Carroll, professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine wrote on his blog of the chart. “It’s that we are all alone. We are spending so, so, so much more than everyone else.”
…The U.S. ranks 46th among 48 developed economies in health-care efficiency, according to a Bloomberg ranking, below China, Iran, Colombia and, you know, pretty much everybody else.
Why is our system so terrible? Largely because it is built for profit. Unlike many other countries, the government has no role in either providing care or setting prices, and so prices skyrocket.” -Mark Gongloff
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/american-health-care-terrible_n_4324967.html
United States Health Care has had huge problems for years.This info. I observed as an active R.N. –if you are financially well off-you are ok——–if you are marginally financially stable and get very ill–you fall through the cracks————-if you are poor-well the story is too sad.
Thank you Kathleen.