The US Private Healthcare System fails again

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Originally Posted by Riot

First, lose the insult

Second: the King of Saudi Arabia doesn't have much to do with ranking the healthcare system for 300 million people. Our archaic private healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, and one of the least effective.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

Overall rank: 37th , behind every other first world country
Preventable deaths: 14th
Health-life expectancy: 24th

Total health expenditures as %GDP: 2nd, (behind the Marshall Islands) most expensive first world healthcare in world

Health performance rank of 8 factors (system performance, cost, % you pay into system, insurance, etc): 72 nd



That's why starting next year there will be non-profits able to enter the insurance exchanges to compete with the for-profit insurance companies, undercutting them, lowering insurance costs for everyone, and making it affordable.

"The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems was last produced in 2000."
Nothing has changed at all in 12 years.
Surely the Greek model is one to be envied and admired now, right? And the Italians, perhaps this has something to do with these countries hanging on by a thread...
The Colombians? Of course.
How did the US healthcare system fail Sarah Burke?