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The World Health Organization ranked American health care 37th in the world, and in a recent comprehensive, comparative study, the Commonwealth Fund ranked Americas health care system last on the basis of 21 indicative factors.
Analyzing the countries that have surpassed the U.S. in these rankings highlights a puzzling reality: What places these other countries ahead of the U.S. is not just their universal health care systems, but also their significantly lower health care costs and undeniably greater efficiency and equity. Hows that possible? Read about seven of those countries and find out.
https://m.mic.com/articles/46063/7-countries-that-show-us-how-health-care-should-be-done#.GIrF4UR7j
Ohiogal
(31,928 posts)that health care shouldn't be for-profit, nothing will ever change here.
onecaliberal
(32,786 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Greed overtakes service to people.
Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)Unfortunately, the jingoistic "We're No 1!" chants override real data.
It's mind over matter. They don't care, and we don't matter.