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Ranking nations' healthcare, United States isn't No. 1
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas May 12, 2004 01:05pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Christian Science Monitor |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ranking nations' healthcare, United States isn't No. 1
The Christian-Science Monitor
Americans spend twice as much on healthcare as other countries, but it turns out that they're not getting twice the quality for the price when they go to the doctor or hospital. In the first international comparison of healthcare quality, researchers found that of the five countries studied, none is consistently the best or the worst. The conclusion: Each country has something to learn from the others. But researchers concluded that it was the Americans who should take particular note of the findings.
"The US should be particularly concerned about these findings," says Gerard Anderson, director of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "If I'm spending twice as much, I'd expect to have the better outcomes." But it turns out, the US was in the middle of the pack for the majority of health issues that were compared. The US is the only one of the five countries studied that doesn't have some kind of government-sponsored universal healthcare system. Instead, the US has a mix of private and public insurance programs, with private companies providing the bulk of care. Advocates of the current system routinely cite the high quality of care compared to that in government-run health systems when justifying the significantly higher costs. |
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