Forbes October 3, 2024
Among ten peer nations, Americans live the shortest lives and are the least healthy, despite the United States spending the most on healthcare, according to a recent Commonwealth Fund study.
The U.S. healthcare system ranks last among ten comparably wealthy, industrialized nations on important metrics, such as life expectancy, preventable deaths, access to healthcare and health equity. Yet, the U.S. spends the most of any nation examined in the study, twice the average per capita.
Conspicuously, Americans face the most barriers to obtaining affordable healthcare. This is partly due to the U.S. being the only nation in the study that does not provide universal health coverage. Twenty-five million Americans are uninsured, and tens of millions more are underinsured, meaning they...
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