HCR Update from Mark Sanna: US Ranked Last in Health Care

Britain and Switzerland were top scorers in a study by the Commonwealth Fund examining the quality and efficiency of health care systems in 11 advanced nations by a leading American research organization. As usual, the United States finished last over all and last on several important measures of cost and health outcomes, despite having the most costly system in the world. The US ranked last on measures involving the cost of care, the efficiency of delivering it, and the fairness of its system. It also ranked last on indicators of healthy lives as measured by infant mortality, healthy life expectancy at age 60 and deaths that might have been avoided through medical care.