Healthcare Innovation September 20, 2024
Researchers find the U.S. healthcare system plagued by access, efficiency issues
A study published on Sep. 19 by the non-profit, New York City-based Commonwealth Fund, has examined the healthcare systems of ten advanced nations and found the U.S. healthcare system to demonstrate dramatic “underperformance” along several key dimensions: care access, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes, though the study gives our healthcare system a second-place ranking for “care process.”
The authors of the report—David Blumenthal, Evan D. Gumas, Arnav Shah, Munira Z. Gunja, and Reginald D. Williams II—in their report, “Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System: Comparing Performance in 10 Nations,” state that, “While each country’s health system is unique — evolving over decades, sometimes...
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