Health care: USA lags behind other wealthy countries

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Jan 14th 2008 From Economist.com

AMERICA lags behind other wealthy countries in the overall performance

of its medical system. A new study by researchers at the London School

of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looks at data from 19 countries for

deaths of under 75-year-olds that should have been avoided with proper

health care. Preventable deaths declined by 16% on average in these

countries between 1997 and 2003. Big improvements were recorded in

countries that started with both low levels of avoidable deaths (like

France) and those with higher levels (like Britain). But America,

where health-care spending per head is highest, is at the bottom of

the table.

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