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Related: About this forumU.S. Falls Behind Slovenia in Latest Review of Population Health
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/u-s-falls-behind-slovenia-in-latest-review-of-population-health.htmlAmericans are dying sooner and living with more illness than residents of Slovenia and other less prosperous countries, according to the latest study showing the U.S. is getting a poor return on money it spends on care.
Americans lost more years of life to heart disease, lung cancer, preterm birth complications, diabetes and at least 21 other conditions in 2010 than most other members of the 34-country Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The study, released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, measured disease and risk factors in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010.
The U.S. failed to keep up with other nations in improving population health over the two decades despite spending the most per capita on health care, the study said. The U.S. death rate, after being standardized by age, fell to 27th in 2010 from 18th in 1990. Citizens of poorer countries that spend less on health services, including Chile, Portugal, Slovenia, and South Korea, had lower mortality rates than Americans.
Despite a level of health expenditures that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago, the health of the U.S. population has improved only gradually and has fallen behind the pace of progress in many other wealthy nations, wrote Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, in an accompanying editorial.
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U.S. Falls Behind Slovenia in Latest Review of Population Health (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2013
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NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)1. Yes, but once people are mandated to pay premiums to private insurers, it will all change
As long as they can also afford to co-pays and deductibles. Utopia is just around the bend
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. But we have the largest military on earth, HOO RA!
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)3. Makes you proud, doesn't it?
DJ13
(23,671 posts)4. Its better to die sick but free than to live under socialism..
......Oh, who am I kidding.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)5. We spend way to much on futile care and not nearly enough on preventative care,
early detection and reducing medical errors.
The system remains an international disgrace, imo.