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US Healthcare: Most Expensive and Worst Performing

Compared to 11 other nations studied in a new Commonwealth Fund report, the US ranks last in health care. American health care is the most expensive in the world, with 17.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) spent on health care (Australia, for comparison, spends only 8.9 percent). Per capita health expenditures in the US were more than $8,500 in 2011… more than double the $3,405 per capita spent in the UK, which ranked first in the report. The US ranks last overall on measures of healthy lives, with poor scores on mortality amenable to medical care, infant mortality, and healthy life expectancy at age 60. Despite its high cost, the report concluded “The claim that the United States has ‘the best health care system in the world’ is clearly not true”.

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Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.

The US spends more on health care than the next 10 biggest spenders combined, while ranking last in terms of quality of care among industrialized countries. About 600,000 Americans travel abroad to receive lower-cost medical care every year, and this number is growing by about 20 percent annually. Americans are being overcharged for often sub-par medical care, as well as given unnecessary tests and procedures alarmingly often.

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List of Top Healthiest Countries in the World does NOT Include the United States

By Dr. Mercola

The United States spends $2.7 trillion annually — TWICE the amount per person as most other industrialized nations – on health care. With this level of spending, you might think Americans would be among the healthiest people on the planet … unfortunately, that isn’t the case.
Japan Tops List of Healthiest Countries
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