Health-care expenditure in the USA versus 5 other high-spending OECD Countries

[John Short]

Paper on cross country health expenditure in The Lancet,  Volume 384, Issue 9937, Pages 83 - 92, 5 July 2014  available on line (article attached, added by Napodano)

Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countries
(Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland)

Luca Lorenzoni MSc, Annalisa Belloni MSc  Franco Sassi PhD

[petagny]

Did anyone notice this report by the Commonwealth Fund?

It places the US at the bottom in most categories of an international comparison of health care systems. Interestingly, the UK comes top in most categories, except the one that really matters - healthy lives!