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US Healthcare Woeful, New Study Confirms
Apart from the US, the countries that were surveyed were Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. More than 27,000 patients and primary care doctors participated in the study that covered the last three years.
Despite having the costliest health care system in the world, the United States is last or next-to-last in quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability of its citizens to lead long, healthy, productive lives, says the report .
"On many measures of health system performance, the U.S. has a long way to go to perform as well as other countries that spend far less than we do on healthcare, yet cover everyone," the Commonwealth Fund's president, Karen Davis, said during a Tuesday morning teleconference.
"It is disappointing, but not surprising, that despite our significant investment in health care, the U.S. continues to lag behind other countries," she added.
Previous reports by the nonprofit Fund, which conducts research into healthcare performance and which promotes changes in the U.S. system, have been heavily used by policymakers and politicians pressing for healthcare reform.
According to 2007 data included in the report, the U.S. spends the most on health care, at $7,290 per capita per year. That's almost twice the amount spent in Canada and nearly three times the rate of New Zealand, which spends the least.
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