The world’s most efficient healthcare systems
The main goal of the Affordable Care Act is to reshape a broken health care system by improving quality while decreasing health care costs.
Among developed countries, The United States spends the most on health care, yet has the worst outcomes.
So, how do we compare to other countries?
Bloomberg recently looked at other health care systems around the globe and ranked the countries based on the efficiency of their health-care systems.
The results illustrate that there is a large gap in the staggering costs of treatment in the U.S. and its effectiveness and quality.
Huffington Post created this set of infographics based on the Bloomberg rankings that illustrate how our health system compares to systems in other countries.
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- Learn more about the healthcare systems in other countries by reading T.R. Reid’s, “The Healing of America: A Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Healthcare”
