U.S. Has Worst Health Care Despite Spending the Most On It
Half of lower-income Americans face cost barriers to getting health care, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.
The United States spends the most on health care only to receive by far the worst performance out of 11 high-income countries, according to a new report out this week from the research group Commonwealth Fund.
Graded across 71 performance measures, the U.S. ranked last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes. The nations surveyed in the analysis were Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which has consistently ranked last in the seven comparative reports the nonprofit organization has published since 2004.
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