Next time a political turns towards the American health care system to draw inspiration for 'reforms' of the NHS, the media should point them towards the Commonwealth Fund's comparative report on Healthcare spending.
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Next time a political turns towards the American health care system to draw inspiration for 'reforms' of the NHS, the media should point them towards the Commonwealth Fund's comparative report on Healthcare spending.
The US spends (overall, public & private) nearly double other countries do, but are in last place as regards outcomes in the comparator group fo developed countries.
Its an expensive, ineffective system driving health inequality!
#Health #NHS #politics
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/sep/mirror-mirror-2024 -
Matthew Loxtonreplied to Emeritus Prof Christopher May last edited by
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US-based healthcare analyst here.Our system is amazingly good at wealth extraction, and that is its primary goal.
There is nothing but bad examples that the NHS could learn from us. OTOH, it could learn some things from Kaiser Permanente, the Veterans Health System, and Medicare