Healthcare DIVE September 18, 2024
The Commonwealth Fund analyzed the healthcare systems of 10 nations and found the U.S. ranked last in access to care, health outcomes and overall.
The United States continues to drag behind other industrialized nations when it comes to healthcare, according to new research from the Commonwealth Fund.
America ranked last overall among 10 high-income countries in health system performance — despite spending nearly twice as much on healthcare, according to the research foundation, which has compared the U.S. healthcare system with those of other nations for the past twenty years.
“Our health system is continuing to lag far behind other nations when it comes to meeting our citizens’ basic healthcare needs … We spend the most and get the least...