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The Health Care Reform Debate: The Facts
The United States spends more money on health care than any other country in
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development*. For all this spending, Americans might expect their health care system to rank among the world’s best, but it doesn’t make the top ten, or twenty….The USA ranks 37th!
(Click here for the complete list). |
| The slide show below compares the US with 6 other countries that all have government funded health care systems. |
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Some Facts:
- Americans spend on average 20% of their disposable income on health care, while Canadians spend 14%.
- The US spends 2.5 times more on health care than Japan, while Japan has less than half the infant mortality rate.
- Australians live an average of 4 years longer than Americans, while they spend less than half as much on health care.
What, then, can we learn from the countries who are better serving their citizens? Isn’t that the question we should be asking? |
| * OECD: 30 democratic, economically advanced countries. |
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