U.S. health-care system ranks last among 11 high-income countries, researchers say

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The United States has the worst health-care system overall among 11 high-income countries, even though it spends the highest proportion of its gross domestic product on health care, according to research by the Commonwealth Fund.

“We’ve set up a system where we spend quite a bit of money on health care but we have significant financial barriers, which tend to dissuade people from getting care,” said Eric Schneider, the lead author behind the findings and senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund, which conducts independent research on health-care issues.

Researchers compared the health-care systems of 11 high-income countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.



The research relies on 71 performance measures, based on surveys conducted in each country and administrative data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Health Organization. The measures analyzed fell under five themes: access to care, the care process, administrative efficiency, equity and health-care outcomes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-health-rankings/

[Lovie777]

1. I wonder why? . ..

"sarcasm" noted.

[Jim__]

2. Highest health care spending as a % of GDP and by far last in health system performance.

I guess plutocracy doesn't work.

[keithbvadu2]

3. One class of people has good coverage

[lagomorph777]

5. That's actually better than I would have expected.

I would have guessed 12th or 13th out of 11, based on personal experience.

I will, however, give tremendous kudos for the vaccination push - from development to deployment, absolutely amazing, once we got Turd out of the way.