"Medicine is big business in America. Nearly one fifth of our GDP is spent on health care – 50 percent more than any other developed country," writes Russell J. Andrews on GPS. "Yet by many measures we are not getting value for money. Even nearby Cuba, which spends less than one-tenth as much as the U.S. per capita on health care, has outcomes that are as good or better: life expectancy is just as long, and the infant mortality rate is actually lower. Health care in the U.S. is on an unsustainable course, and costs cannot continue to increase while outcomes continue to deteriorate." globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn/2013/07/11/u-s-health-cares-dangerous-profit-fixation/
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:18:23 +0000