According to this site the US is ranked 37th over all in the world in health care. It says that we rank 1st in spending but we don't get what we pay for. The last ranking was done in 2000.
American medical care may be the most expensive in the world, but that does not mean it is worth every penny. A study to be released Thursday highlights the stark contrast between what the United States spends on its health system and the quality of care it delivers, especially when compared with many other industrialized nations.
The report, the second national scorecard from this influential health policy research group, shows that the United States spends more than twice as much on each person for health care as most other industrialized countries. But it has fallen to last place among those countries in preventing deaths through use of timely and effective medical care, according to the report by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group in New York.
Access to care in the United States has worsened since the fund’s first report card in 2006 as more people — some 75 million — are believed to lack adequate health insurance or are uninsured altogether. And within the nation, the report found, the cost and quality of care vary drastically......
The world hates our freedom to die of curable diseases!
tuc(more proof of realities liberal bias!)
First science and now reality? Where can conservatives go to flee?
Oh, well there I guess.
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It's kind of funny how those now saying "Don't take the H1N1 vaccine!" were the same ones 20 years ago who wanted to quarrantine AIDS patients, even though H1N1 is transmitted by casual contact and AIDS is not.
Mmhm, look at all those socialist and Islamic hell-holes with their better healthcare
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__________________ How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." - Carl Sagan
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