AXIOS January 31, 2023
The U.S. continues to far outspend other developed nations while seeing worsening health outcomes.
Driving the news: A report from the Commonwealth Fund today shows poorer U.S. health outcomes — such as Americans being more likely to suffer from multiple chronic illnesses, die from avoidable causes including maternal mortality and assault, and having a shorter life expectancy — all while America pays the most per capita for those outcomes.
“The problem is getting worse,” Munira Gunja, senior researcher at the Commonwealth Fund’s International Health Policy Program.
- “In these sorts of studies where we make cross-national comparisons, we can see we are still behind our peer countries and need to start implementing methods they’ve developed into our own system,” she...
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