Drs Emanuel and Fuchs say that the US spends "substantially" more on healthcare per person than any other country, and yet "US health outcomes are the same as or worse than those in other countries" . They suggest that the following factors are at play, and are driving healthcare overuse...
The U.S. spends more than twice per person on healthcare than other developed countries, yet our outcomes are worse. The issue? Our system was built for health problems we faced 100 years ago, when infectious diseases were the top threats. Today, chronic diseases are the main health issues...
The US health care system appears to underperform on nearly every metric. The US spends more than $3.5 trillion per year on health care, 25% more per capita than the next highest-spending country.1However, compared with other countries, the US performs poorly on process, outcome, and patient...
The same day Lara wins the title of Musik, Sofi’s father dies, and a grieving Sofi sets out to prove Lara is using illegal magic in her performances. But the more time she spends with Lara, the more Sofi begins to doubt everything she knows about her family, her music, and the gir...
aCarole Palmer is a US scientist.She tells us some interesting facts.She says that the more time sugar spends on your teeth,the worse it is for your teeth's health.For example,if you drink a bottle of soda in minutes,instead of drinking it slowly for hours,there will be less danger ...
The incidents weren't confined to the White House; documents show they also took place at Biden family homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, at Camp David, and in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the first family spends the Thanksgiving holiday. ...
system pays more for healthcare and gets worse outcomes: In 1991, an in-house benchmarking study documented a gap between Du Pont’s maintenance record and those of the best performing companies in the chemicals industry. The benchmarking study revealed an apparent paradox: Du Pont spent more ...
000 articles and publications in science and engineering alone.5 As institutions that serve their communities, colleges and universities contribute to—and sometimes drive—local economies; the US higher education sector employs nearly four million fac...
One explanation is that the United States spends too much and saves too little. A current account deficit represents the gap between what a country saves and what it invests. While US private and government investment rates have been relatively stable over the past decade...
even with the passage of the Affordable Care Act many patients “face rising co-payments and deductibles that compromise access to care and leave them vulnerable to ruinous medical bills”. Despite the current high healthcare spending levels in the US,healthcare outcomesare worse than in comparable...