American Health Care is the worst in the world, the UK NHS is the best

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..according to a new report produced by the Washington Based Commonwealth Fund!!

"The United Kingdom ranks first overall, scoring highest on quality, access and efficiency," the fund's researchers conclude in their 30-page report. Their findings amount to a huge endorsement of the health service, especially as it spends the second-lowest amount on healthcare among the 11 – just £2,008 per head, less than half the £5,017 in the US. Only New Zealand, with £1,876, spent less.


Read more here...


http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health
 

The 11 westernized countries are...


New Zealand, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, Britain and the USA.

“The most notable way the US differs from other industrialised countries is the absence of universal health insurance coverage,” which is available in five other nations,

It says that despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, the US continually underachieves “on most dimensions of performance.”



The compiled data was from the years prior to Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act having been phased in, thus without the reverberations that are slowly being felt from it.
The foundation used information from its own 2011 national health system scorecard, as well evidence from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It also used 2011-13 policy surveys of patients and primary care physicians, who discussed their views on their countries’ health systems.
According to the study, the UK “outperforms all countries” in the management of chronic illness. “The widespread and effective use of health information technology (HIT) in the UK plays a large role in the country’s high score on the chronic care management indicators, as well as its performance on system aspects of preventive care delivery.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...rn-countries-with-us-coming-last-9542833.html

The ranking table here...

http://www.independent.co.uk/incomi...nates/w1024/Davis_Mirror_2014_ES1_for_web.jpg
 

I note that the level of expenditure in Australia and New Zealand is quite low but I wonder if that is the true picture. In the case of OZ, does it include the subsidisation of pharmaceuticals and health fund membership ?

Our government is making noises about how unsustainable our system is from a cost point of view but looking at the table it seems that we are getting value for money.
 
Sorry but you can look at several surveys on who has the best and you'll get several answers, it depends on who get the most $$$$ to take a surveyIMO
 
I agree Davey. It's important to know what numbers are included and how they are collected.
Then there's the interpretation, which can be problematic.
 

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