Bang for your buck? No such luck-not even close.
The United States health-care system has finished dead last-yet again-in a comparison of first-world countries, despite vastly outspending those nations on health services, according to a new study released Monday.
Adding insult to injury, the Commonwealth Fund-issued study ranked the United Kingdom in first place in the rankings despite the fact that the UK spent just $3,182 per capita on health-the second-least amount of the 11 countries surveyed.
And Canada, which was just above the U.S. in the overall rankings, spent just $4,522 per person on health services.
In contrast, the U.S. spent $8,508 per person on health care, or 17.7 percent of the gross domestic product.
“The claim that the United States has ‘the best health care system in the world’ is clearly not true,” stated the Commonwealth Fund report.
“To reduce cost and improve outcomes, the U.S. must adopt and adapt lessons from effective health- care systems both at home and around the world,” said the report, which examined 80 separate indicators from the countries related to five overall areas of performance: health, quality, efficiency, access and equity.
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