U.S. Health in International Perspective
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"_Although the United States spends more on health care than any other nation, a growing body of research shows that Americans are in poorer health and live shorter lives than people in many other high-income countries. U.S. Health in International Perspective synthesizes; available research, taking an in-depth look at this disadvantage in health and lifespan.
Why is the United States falling behind? The report finds that America's health disadvantage probably results from a combination of factors: inadequate health care systems, unhealthy behaviors, social and economic factors, and environmental factors, such as metropolitan landscapes that encourage car use rather than exercise._"
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Unfortunatelly in my country, spain, the conservative Popular Party is trying to destroy our public health sistem, selling it to private companies like "Capio Sanidad".
They're trying to do that even though we know that hospitals they already manage are more expensive and patients are not better attended.Casually, this company is related to several former members of the party, including Rodrigo Rato, which was one of those responsible for the banking crisis
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I would be not so sure about a frame for an answer rinsi. I don't know thoroughly the USA health care system but, as it often happens, we, the Europeans, tend to forget that the USA are, in fact, 50 States. With a much greater integration of course than EU but always 50 States. I remember a friend of mine from Virginia, for instance, once told me the health system of her residence State was quite different from the Texas or Florida ones.
So said, once stated my ignorance about the topic, of course the health system problem, not only in Spain, forms a part of a wider picture which shows a multinational attack against the central sovereign authority of the states. This can be considered under a good number of different points of view. The ideological clash between different macroeconomics theories, the historical series etc.
