The US health care system is said to be at the bottom of a comparative survey of 11 high-income countries.
This is the result of a study conducted by the Public Welfare Fund in the United States. The Public Welfare Fund is a private foundation that aims to improve the health care system in the United States.
According to a study by the Washington Post, the US health care system is in the worst position compared to 11 rich countries, while the United States has the highest ratio of GDP to health. And assigned health.
In this study, the health care systems of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States were compared.
This research is based on performance data in 71 scales. The scales are categorized into five general categories: access to health care, efficiency, equity access to the treatment system, costs, and returns.
“We have set up a system that spends a lot of money on the health care system, but we face major financial barriers that keep people from receiving health care,” Eric Schneider, lead author of the study, told the Washington Post.
Schneider said that in this study, no country was at the top in all areas. He says there are things for each country to learn from other countries, but overall the Netherlands, Australia and Norway performed best.
The results of this study show that countries that are far ahead of the United States in areas such as providing universal health coverage, removing barriers to health care costs, investing in the primary health care system, reducing inequalities, minimizing problems Administration and investment in social services for children work well.
Schneider said investing in social services for children in particular is important to reduce the burden that older populations impose on the US health care system. “This kind of basic support among the country’s younger population reduces the burden of chronic illness on the health system, which has a higher rate in the United States,” he said.
He stressed, for example, that the Netherlands has a regular system of providing round-the-clock medical services on all days of the week, which prevents minor illnesses from becoming more dangerous and important.
Researchers say that overall, the United States ranks lowest among these countries and has a “much lower” performance than the average performance of other countries.
