Health care costs in the United States continue to radically exceed those in any other industrialized nation, yet we don’t get better health care outcomes as a result; this, a basic finding of a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. The report found that in 2009 the United States spent nearly $8,000 per capita. That [...]
US Health Care Still Radically More Expensive Yet Not More Effective |
| By: Jon Walker Thursday May 3, 2012 9:11 am |
It’s a Ripoff! -or- Why America Spends So Much on Health Care |
| By: Jon Walker Thursday April 28, 2011 4:16 pm |
As you can see in this helpful chart from the Kaiser Family Foundation, America pays much more for health care than any other first-world country. There are a lot of false ideas or very minor explanations that are overstated to try to justify why we pay so much. Other countries are just evil nations that [...]



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