Ezra Klein writes in his Washington Post (6/24) blog that in spite of spending significantly more on healthcare than six other industrialized countries, “the US ranks last overall, as it did in the 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of” an analysis conducted by the Commonwealth Fund. The authors added, “Most troubling, the US fails to achieve better health outcomes than the other countries, and as shown in the earlier editions, the US is last on dimensions of access, patient safety, coordination, efficiency, and equity.” Data show that the US spent $7,290 per capita, compared to New Zealand, with the lowest per capita cost of $2,454.
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