America’s Health Care System Could Be So Much Better
“The ongoing conversation around health care in the United States presents a daunting question: How is it that this country—with all its wealth, education and innovation—has among the highest health care costs of any industrialized nation, yet its clinical outcomes still lag behind? Illustrating the point, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, disease burden in the U.S. is greater than in other similar countries, with poorer management of preventable diseases resulting in increased use of emergency rooms, increased hospital admissions, worse outcomes, higher costs, and higher mortality rates.”c