U.S. Healthcare Ranked Dead Last Compared To 10 Other Countries

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forbes.com - by Dan Munro - June 16, 2014

The Commonwealth Fund in their latest report “Mirror, Mirror On The Wall — 2014 Update” (pdf here).

For this year's survey on overall health care, The Commonwealth Fund ranked the U.S. dead last.

It’s fairly well accepted that the U.S. is the most expensive healthcare system in the world, but many continue to falsely assume that we pay more for healthcare because we get better health (or better health outcomes). The evidence, however, clearly doesn’t support that view.

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CLICK HERE - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally

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