Here´s some news that´ll hurt your heart: The Commonwealth Fund´s latest ranking of global health care systems finds that although the United States spends twice as much per capita on health care, the nation ranks well below other industrialized nations in many areas of health care delivery, including efficiency, access to care and preventable deaths. In fact, the overall U.S. score is two points lower than 2006, the first year of the study. If you can stomach it, the full results are available here.
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