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Study: U.S. healthcare consumers getting shortchanged

Patient Access Weekly Advisor, July 11, 2007

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A new Commonwealth Fund study suggests that Americans aren't getting the bang for their buck in healthcare costs, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

The study shows that Americans aren't healthier and do not live any longer than people in other industrialized nations that spend half per capital of what Americans spend.

The study specifically compared the United States with five other nations-Canada, Germany, New Zealand, England, and Australia. The study examined healthcare access, efficiency, equity and healthy living, and other measured. The United States ranked last.

A 2000 World Health Organization report ranked the United States 37th out of 190 nations.

"We, unlike any other country, have 46 million people who are uninsured, and that raises a whole host of health and financial issues," Ken Thorpe, professor of health policy at Emory University, told the Chronicle.

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