U.S. Scores Dead last Again in Healthcare
Reuters
June 23, 2010
Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system...
..."We rank last on safety and do poorly on several dimensions of quality," [the researcher] told reporters. "We do particularly poorly on going without care because of cost. And we also do surprisingly poorly on access to primary care and after-hours care."
...When a country fails to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, it also fails to meet the needs of the average citizen," the report reads.