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Sep 19, 2024 · The three top-performing countries in the report were Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. “This report reveals that our health system is continuing to lag far behind other nations ...
Nov 13, 2024 · The United States has the worst-performing health system among all high-income countries. Even the best-performing U.S. states lag international comparators like France, Germany, the United ...
Feb 1, 2023 · The U.S. leads 12 other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a forum of 38 wealthy countries, in just about every category of negative health outcomes studied by ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Throughout this chart collection, measures such as long-term health outcomes, treatment outcomes, hospital-related care, and patient safety are used to analyze the quality of health systems in the U.S. and 11 other countries identified as similarly wealthy based on total GDP and GDP per capita.
May 28, 2024 · Some countries, like the United Kingdom, have health systems that are largely publicly funded and operated, while other countries, like Switzerland, have a compulsory private insurance system ...
Aug 4, 2021 · The report, Mirror, Mirror 2021 — Reflecting Poorly: Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries, shows that getting good, essential health care in the U.S. depends on income — more so than in any other wealthy country. Since 2004, the U.S. has ranked last in every edition of the report, falling further behind on some ...
Social scientists often cite international statistics to demonstrate that the United States lags woefully behind other developed countries in the quality of health care.1,2 According to a Commonwealth Fund study of 19 countries, for example, the United States had the highest number of deaths that could have been prevented using existing health care procedures.3 A January 2008 position paper in ...
