New York, N.Y., October 8, 2015 — The U.S. spent more per person on health care than 12 other high-income nations in 2013, while seeing the lowest life expectancy and some of the worst health outcomes among this group, according to a Commonwealth Fund report out today. The analysis shows that in the U.S., which spent an average of $9,086 per person annually, life expectancy was 78.8 years. Switzerland, the second-highest-spending country, spent $6,325 per person and had a life expectancy of 82.9 years. Mortality rates for cancer were among the lowest in the U.S., but rates of chronic conditions, obesity, and infant mortality were higher than those abroad. “Time and again, we see evidence that the amount of money we spend on health care in this country is not gaining us comparable health benefits,” said Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D. “We have to look at the root causes of this disconnect and invest our health care dollars in ways that will allow us to live longer while enjoying better health and greater productivity.” http://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub...spends-more-on-health-care-than-other-nations U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared To 10 Other Countries https://www.forbes.com/sites/danmun...-compared-to-10-other-countries/#486bbd6f576f Major Findings · Quality: The indicators of quality were grouped into four categories: effective care, safe care, coordinated care, and patient-centered care. Compared with the other 10 countries, the U.S. fares best on provision and receipt of preventive and patient-centered care. While there has been some improvement in recent years, lower scores on safe and coordinated care pull the overall U.S. quality score down. Continued adoption of health information technology should enhance the ability of U.S. physicians to identify, monitor, and coordinate care for their patients, particularly those with chronic conditions. · Access: Not surprisingly—given the absence of universal coverage—people in the U.S. go without needed health care because of cost more often than people do in the other countries. Americans were the most likely to say they had access problems related to cost. Patients in the U.S. have rapid access to specialized health care services; however, they are less likely to report rapid access to primary care than people in leading countries in the study. In other countries, like Canada, patients have little to no financial burden, but experience wait times for such specialized services. There is a frequent misperception that trade-offs between universal coverage and timely access to specialized services are inevitable; however, the Netherlands, U.K., and Germany provide universal coverage with low out-of-pocket costs while maintaining quick access to specialty services. · Efficiency: On indicators of efficiency, the U.S. ranks last among the 11 countries, with the U.K. and Sweden ranking first and second, respectively. The U.S. has poor performance on measures of national health expenditures and administrative costs as well as on measures of administrative hassles, avoidable emergency room use, and duplicative medical testing. Sicker survey respondents in the U.K. and France are less likely to visit the emergency room for a condition that could have been treated by a regular doctor, had one been available. · Equity: The U.S. ranks a clear last on measures of equity. Americans with below-average incomes were much more likely than their counterparts in other countries to report not visiting a physician when sick; not getting a recommended test, treatment, or follow-up care; or not filling a prescription or skipping doses when needed because of costs. On each of these indicators, one-third or more lower-income adults in the U.S. said they went without needed care because of costs in the past year. · Healthy lives: The U.S. ranks last overall with poor scores on all three indicators of healthy lives—mortality amenable to medical care, infant mortality, and healthy life expectancy at age 60. The U.S. and U.K. had much higher death rates in 2007 from conditions amenable to medical care than some of the other countries, e.g., rates 25 percent to 50 percent higher than Australia and Sweden. Overall, France, Sweden, and Switzerland rank highest on healthy lives. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror No other advanced country even comes close to the United States in annual spending on health care, but plenty of those other countries see much better outcomes in their citizens' actual health overall. A new Commonwealth Fund report released Thursday underscored that point — yet again — with an analysis that ranks 13 high-income nations on their overall health spending, use of medical services, prices and health outcomes. The study data, which is from 2013, predates the full implementation of Obamacare, which took place in 2014. Obamacare is designed to increase health coverage for Americans and stem the rise in health-care costs. The findings indicate that despite spending well in excess of the rate of any other of those countries in 2013, the United States achieved worse outcomes when it comes to rates of chronic conditions, obesity and infant mortality. One rare bright spot for the U.S., however, is that its mortality rate for cancer is among the lowest out of the 13 countries, and that cancer rates fell faster between 1995 and 2007 than in other countries. "Time and again, we see evidence that the amount of money we spend on health care in this country is not gaining us comparable health benefits," said Dr. David Blumenthal, president of the Commonwealth Fund. "We have to look at the root causes of this disconnect and invest our health-care dollars in ways that will allow us to live longer while enjoying better health and greater productivity." http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/08/us-health-care-spending-is-high-results-arenot-so-good.html Ranking 37th — Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0910064#t=article Health Care Outcomes in States Influenced by Coverage, Disparities https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-in-states-influenced-by-coverage-disparities One explanation for the health disadvantage of the United States relative to other high-income countries might be deficiencies in health services. Although the United States is renowned for its leadership in biomedical research, its cutting-edge medical technology, and its hospitals and specialists, problems with ensuring Americans’ access to the system and providing quality care have been a long-standing concern of policy makers and the public (Berwick et al., 2008; Brook, 2011b; Fineberg, 2012). Higher mortality rates from diseases, and even from transportation-related injuries and homicides, may be traceable in part to failings in the health care system. The United States stands out from many other countries in not offering universal health insurance coverage. In 2010, 50 million people (16 percent of the U.S. population) were uninsured (DeNavas-Walt et al., 2011). Access to health care services, particularly in rural and frontier communities or disadvantaged urban centers, is often limited. The United States has a relatively weak foundation for primary care and a shortage of family physicians (American Academy of Family Physicians, 2009; Grumbach et al., 2009; Macinko et al., 2007; Sandy et al., 2009). Many Americans rely on emergency departments for acute, chronic, and even preventive care (Institute of Medicine, 2007a; Schoen et al., 2009b, 2011). Cost sharing is common in the United States, and high out-of-pocket expenses make health care services, pharmaceuticals, and medical supplies increasingly unaffordable (Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance System, 2011; Karaca-Mandic et al., 2012). In 2011, one-third of American households reported problems paying medical bills (Cohen et al., 2012), a problem that seems to have worsened in recent years (Himmelstein et al., 2009). Health insurance premiums are consuming an increasing proportion of U.S. household income (Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance System, 2011). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154484/ Once again, U.S. has most expensive, least effective health care system in survey A report released Monday by a respected think tank ranks the United States dead last in the quality of its health-care system when compared with 10 other western, industrialized nations, the same spot it occupied in four previous studies by the same organization. Not only did the U.S. fail to move up between 2004 and 2014 -- as other nations did with concerted effort and significant reforms -- it also has maintained this dubious distinction while spending far more per capita ($8,50 on health care than Norway ($5,669), which has the second most expensive system. "Although the U.S. spends more on health care than any other country and has the highest proportion of specialist physicians, survey findings indicate that from the patients’ perspective, and based on outcome indicators, the performance of American health care is severely lacking," the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that promotes improved health care, concluded in its extensive analysis. The charts in this post are from the report. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...care-system-in-survey/?utm_term=.3bea55276072 US healthcare system ranks 50th out of 55 countries for efficiency http://www.beckershospitalreview.co...-50th-out-of-55-countries-for-efficiency.html he U.S. healthcare system notched another dubious honor in a new comparison of its quality to the systems of 10 other developed countries: its rank was dead last. The new study by the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. against seven wealthy European countries and Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It's a follow-up of previous surveys published in 2010, 2007, 2006 and 2004, in all of which the U.S. also ranked last. Although the U.S. ranked in the middle of the pack on measures of effectiveness, safety and coordination of care, it ranked dead last on access and cost, by a sufficient margin to rank dead last overall. The breakdowns are in the chart above. Conservative pundits hastened to explain away these results after the report was published. See Aaron Carroll for a gloss on the "zombie arguments" put forth against the clear evidence that the U.S. system falls short. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-us-healthcare-system-20140617-column.html U.S. Health Care Ranked Worst in the Developed World http://time.com/2888403/u-s-health-care-ranked-worst-in-the-developed-world/
Ten of thousands of Parasites and Parasitical intrinsically useless Politicians, need the Public tax roles in order to live the way they deserve, whilst others work for a living. Somebody must perform the incredibly hard job of watching morning cartoons and eating toasty woasty cerial.
Most feeding at the public trough and teat often do not understand. Only those paying, tend to object vigorously.
Well it’s a sad sad thing but those who pay I think feel very guilty and seem all too willing it’s a sad sad thing but those pay I think feel very guilty and seem all too happy to pay and to keep paying.
Guilty about being productive members of society ? Don't Parasites experience pangs of guilt at not doing anything of value ? Like relatively able bodied teenagers, that never performed a days work, and collect full Social Security disability pensions.
fact is most really rich kids prepare all their lives to go to Ivy League Schools while ghetto kids cant last 5 minutes reading a book. It is the poor who are idle not the rich!!
You do realise that cultural capital is used to show how education can actually reduce social mobility as we can no longer assume that it's related to innate ability?
Useless example. They are a comparatively highly distinct minority. Just what are you trying to get at, if not the simple fact that you repeat the same complaint that the Rabid Right always does (about Social Security). Really quite boring. Besides, if everybody were given a government a minimum-salary* (of say $24K per year**), there would be: (1) Far less robbery, break-ins, stealing in general and as result gun-related deaths, (2) More young adults attending a post-secondary education also funded by the government, and (3) Thereby earning a better salary, and obtaining a solid family-life, (4) Not coming home in a body-bag because they enlisted in the Army in order to obtain funding to pursue an advanced degree, and (5) They would live generally better lives. *This is presently the case in two EU countries that have adopted it. The crime-rate dropped significantly in the first-year. **The Poverty Threshold salary for a family of four.
how can the right wing be thoughtful when it has always stood for freedom while the left has stood for crippling welfare of one kind or another? Have you ever posted a single thing not in support of a new crippling welfare program?
You do realise that you support economics which encourages welfare? If you celebrate monopoly power and low social mobility, expect a consequence! Thatcher was a fine example of it. She rambled on about supply side economics. The reality is that she wasted North Sea Oil returns on unemployment benefit that she engineered by listening to your hero Friedman.
Marx certainly understood capitalism better than Friedman. However, Thatcher wasn't into sense. She engineered the worst ever recession and then had to go to war to stay in power.
of course if true the libcommie would not be so afraid to present his best example? what does he learn from his fear??
I'm not a liberal and 'libcommieism' is a made up cretinous term. My time is wasted mind you, so congrats!
no interest in defending the unfendable? ever see a libertarian who cant defend capitalism? What does that teach you?
Bit obvious really! I was asking you to define libertarianism. Is it an accepted definition or the right wingers abusing the label in America?
What's obvious to you is that being a libcommie makes sense ever after we have showed you how inane it is