GenerationsWhite, J. (2005). Compared to other countries: How exceptional are the health and income security arrangements of the United States? Generations 29(1), 7-12.White, J. (2005). Compared to other countries: How exceptional are the health and income security arrangements of the United...
the US ranked 46th and had a 7.8-year gap from the highest-performing region, according to the study. Life expectancy was 77.4 years in the US that year, compared with 85.2 years in Hong Kong, according to data
Americans, despite spending the most on healthcare, are the sickest and die the youngest compared with nine other high-income nations, according to a new report. The report, released Thursday by independent research group The Commonwealth Fund, found the United States has the worst-performing heal...
Salaries of physicians and nurses were higher in the US; for example, generalist physicians salaries were $218 173 in the US compared with a range of $86 607 to $154 126 in the other countries. Conclusions and Relevance The United States spent approximately twice as much as other ...
Healthcare in the United States The majority of Americans rely on private health insurance for coverage. Statistics show that 91.4% of the American population had coverage in 2022, much less compared to 99% to 100% of the population in other industrialized countries having healthcare coverage.1 ...
Nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of American adults also either had serious trouble payingmedical billsor were unable to pay them, compared to less than 13 percent in France (which had the next-highest rate), and 6 percent or fewer of those in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway, accord...
We are finally starting to see the possibility of ending this outbreak, after more than 18 months and the loss of 2,249 lives. In the past week there has been just 1 case of Ebola, compared with 120 cases a week at the peak in April. ...
On healthcare: we are truly dunces in the US– supposedly pro business, and business minded. We need to pay attention to words, and their meaning, and lose the alarmist ‘socialism’ rhetoric. Insurance is not care. Health cannot be insured. The concept of cost shifting from the individu...
Alternatively, the impact of poverty generally disturbs the people’s living status, which affects social and economic status [21]. Economically impoverished households cannot handle the high health risk expenditures compared to richer households [22]. The impoverished mostly behave with low ability and...
According to the WTO Regional Trade Agreements Database, the number of RTAs worldwide has increased from 50 in 1990 to 355 in 2021, and the coverage of RTAs is also expanding. On the other hand, the content of RTAs is being enriched. Compared with traditional RTAs, the new generation of...