The US Business Roundtable, a group that represents CEOs of major companies, recently issued a report on the status of the US health care system.
There have been studies about the high cost of care in the US before, but this one has a different view – it took the costs and factored benefits into the equation, using a ‘value’ scale based on statistics on life expectancy, death rates and health features.
As reported on MSNBC.com, the US is very far behind its five leading economic competitors: Canada, Japan, Germany, the UK and France, all of which cover all their citizens for health care.
Spending lots of money with less than stellar results is not a formula for success. The US has much to learn from the rest of the world, a fact hopefully understood by the Obama administration.
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29 Jun 10 at 03:10
R.Wassell
I know little about the helath care systems in Japan, Germany, Netherlands, UK, or France. I do know something about the healtcare system in Canada. Canada keeps cost in line by limiting access to hospitals and specialists. The wait time for, even a serious medical condtions, exceeds US wait time by a huge factor. Wait time in the US is essentially zero. Wait time in Canada is weeks to months, depending on the hospital and the medical procedure. The wait time is due to to inavailability of a room in a hospital, and/or avaialbilty of a specialist to perform the procedure. I have numerous contacts in Canada and this is a recurring theme. I believe this should be a factor when copmapring health care systems.