By Sahil Kapur Monday, October 18th, 2010 -- 8:23 am
The United States currently ranks 49th in the world in overall life expectancy. This is according to a study published in the academic journal Health Affairs, slipping dramatically during the last decade.
"As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined," concludes the study, conducted by Columbia University health policy professors Peter A. Muennig and Sherry A. Glied.
In 1999, the World Health Organization ranked the US as 24th in the world in the same category.
The report by Muenning and Glied found the prime culprit of the plunge to be America’s deteriorating health care system. it is marred by ever-rising costs and growing numbers of uninsured and under-insured individuals.
Noting that the United States spends over twice as much per capita on health care than other industrialized nations, it adds: "The observation that Americans are spending relatively more on health but living relatively shorter, less healthy lives . . .
Some critics to allege that the US health care system is 'uniquely inefficient.'"
Of course, conservatives will still insist that the US is the greatest country in the world. The international indexes that Rightardia has looked at suggest otherwise. The US doesn't often even make the top 10 in most of these studies.
Former (Columbia) HCA CEO Rick Scott likes the US health care system as it is because he walked away with $300 million after HCA was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
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The United States currently ranks 49th in the world in overall life expectancy. This is according to a study published in the academic journal Health Affairs, slipping dramatically during the last decade.
"As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined," concludes the study, conducted by Columbia University health policy professors Peter A. Muennig and Sherry A. Glied.
In 1999, the World Health Organization ranked the US as 24th in the world in the same category.
The report by Muenning and Glied found the prime culprit of the plunge to be America’s deteriorating health care system. it is marred by ever-rising costs and growing numbers of uninsured and under-insured individuals.
Noting that the United States spends over twice as much per capita on health care than other industrialized nations, it adds: "The observation that Americans are spending relatively more on health but living relatively shorter, less healthy lives . . .
Some critics to allege that the US health care system is 'uniquely inefficient.'"
Of course, conservatives will still insist that the US is the greatest country in the world. The international indexes that Rightardia has looked at suggest otherwise. The US doesn't often even make the top 10 in most of these studies.
Former (Columbia) HCA CEO Rick Scott likes the US health care system as it is because he walked away with $300 million after HCA was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
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