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09-12-2006, 02:01 AM
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Professor Anderson compared cost versus quality of health care as well as outcomes and satisfaction provided by the health care systems in each country. Dr. Anderson found that the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world and often lags far behind the rest of the industrialized nations.
Some facts:
The United States spends considerable more on health care that any other industrialized country.
The United States also spends the highest proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - on health care.
Health insurance premiums in the United States have had double-digit rate increases for four consecutive years, five times greater than both inflation and wage increases.
The U.S. ranked 37th out 191 member states in terms of “overall health system performance” in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2000 World Health Report.
The U.S. has the 7th highest infant mortality rate of the 30 most industrialized countries; only Hungary, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, and the Slovak Republic perform worse than the U.S.
Both U.S. patients and physicians have substantial levels of dissatisfaction with the quality of the health system.
Professor Anderson compared cost versus quality of health care as well as outcomes and satisfaction provided by the health care systems in each country. Dr. Anderson found that the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world and often lags far behind the rest of the industrialized nations.
Some facts:
The United States spends considerable more on health care that any other industrialized country.
The United States also spends the highest proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - on health care.
Health insurance premiums in the United States have had double-digit rate increases for four consecutive years, five times greater than both inflation and wage increases.
The U.S. ranked 37th out 191 member states in terms of “overall health system performance” in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2000 World Health Report.
The U.S. has the 7th highest infant mortality rate of the 30 most industrialized countries; only Hungary, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, and the Slovak Republic perform worse than the U.S.
Both U.S. patients and physicians have substantial levels of dissatisfaction with the quality of the health system.