US Healthcare Ranks Worst – and Most Expensive – In Study of 11 CountriesCommonwealth Fund Reveals Which Countries’ Healthcare is the Best – and Whose Is the Worst
Britain’s Healthcare Ranked First Amongst 11 Countries; U.S. Is Last
Bad News for American Healthcare: Ranked Last Amongst 11 Countries’ Healthcare Systems
US Healthcare Ranks Worst – and Most Expensive – In Study of 11 Countries
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A recent study of eleven of the world’s wealthiest countries’ healthcare systems named the U.S. as both the most expensive healthcare – and the world’s worst healthcare system.
Britain, on the other hand, was named as having the greatest healthcare.
The survey relied on data collected from questionnaires from patients and doctors; it also collected evidence from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The Commonwealth Fund report indicated that Britain topped nine out of the 12 categories used in the list. Amongst these categories were effectiveness of care and patient-centered care.
Though this was the first year that Switzerland was included in the report, Swiss healthcare came in a close second place overall; Sweden followed in third place.
This is not the first time U.S. has ranked poorly in the Commonwealth Fund’s report. In fact, American healthcare has come in dead last place on four previous occasions: in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010.
The U.S. also differs radically from the other industrialized countries in that it lacks universal health insurance coverage.
The report, entitled “Mirror Mirror on the Wall”, makes a point of noting that the data for this year’s survey was collected before Obamacare was introduced into the country.
“Thus, it is not surprising that the U.S. underperforms on measures of access and equity between populations with above-average and below-average incomes,” the report allows.
Australia, Canada, France and Germany were also included in the report, as well as the Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway.
Sources: International Business Times, The Commonwealth Fund
Photo Sources: The Commonwealth Fund, UN Omaha
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