American Health Care System Sucks

When it comes to health care in the United States, our system truly sucks when compared to other developed countries around the world who spend less money but manage to offer a much higher quality service.

Currently in America an estimated 45 million Americans live without any form of health insurance, and with obesity and heart disease running rampent across the country, the health care system is taking a serious beating.

The report, released by the Commonwealth Fund compared health care costs and services offered by leading countries including the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Britain.

When it came to five of the leading ranking factors that were used to gage the effectiveness of health care, the US health care system ranked last or next to last, a bad sign indeed for the most populated country on the list.

“The most notable way the US differs from other countries is the absence of universal health insurance coverage,” it said.

“Health reform legislation recently signed into law by President Barack Obama should begin to improve the affordability of insurance and access to care when fully implemented in 2014.

“Other nations ensure the accessibility of care through universal health insurance systems and through better ties between patients and the physician practices that serve as their long-term ‘medical homes.’ Without reform, it is not surprising that the US currently underperforms relative to other countries on measures of access to care and equity in health care between populations with above-average and below-average incomes.”

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