Can we please drop all this We’re #1 nonsense when it comes Health Care. Seriously, we have nothing to brag about.
Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries. This report—an update to two earlier editions—includes data from surveys of patients, as well as information from primary care physicians about their medical practices and views of their countries’ health systems. Compared with five other nations—Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom—the U.S. health care system ranks last or next-to-last on five dimensions of a high performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives.
Look at those costs? We’re spending 6,102.00 per capita and we’re not #1 in quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives? How is that possible? And I would think that Republicans would be all over this obvious bloat and waste instead of making scary noises about rationing – which already occurs in our system – while screaming we’re the best – which we’re obviously not.
Our Health Care System is ridiculously expensive and ineffiecent. It’s focus is not on saving lives, but rather on corporate profits – and it shows.