HealthLeaders Media January 31, 2023
A new healthcare report from The Commonwealth Fund finds that the United States does not compare favorably to other high-income countries.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– In 2020, U.S. life expectancy at birth was 77 years, which was three years lower than the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average.
– In 2021, the United States spent 17.8% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, which was nearly twice the level of spending of the average OECD country, according to the new report.
– More Americans have died from the coronavirus than residents in other OECD countries.
Despite spending more on healthcare than other high-income countries, the United States lags peer countries in several measures of healthcare performance, according to a new...
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