PBHL 2214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Insurance Marketplace, Unitedhealth Group, Health Care In The United States
5 Jan 2017
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The united states healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, but when it comes to health outcomes, it preforms worse than 11 other similar industrialized nations. The us struggled to provide health access, efficiency, and equity. According to the report the uk, ranked in first place while switzerland followed second. The uk has a single-payer healthcare system while switzerland has health insurance through a private market. In the swiss market, companies are not allowed to profit on their basic plans. Both the us and uk ranked low on the healthy lives scale. These numbers can be higher if preventative methods are implemented. The us spends the most of all countries on health care which is 17. 7% of the gdp while australia spends the least 8. 9%. Americans also had the worst equity of care between high-income and low-income patients.
