Quality Report: U.S. Healthcare Comes In Dead Last – Again

A Commonwealth Report evaluating 11 countries’ health systems put the U.S. dead last for the fifth time since the report has been published. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, used criteria such as quality, efficiency and access to care to reach its conclusion. But it also expects the U.S. scores to be better next time the report is published since it has implemented the Affordable Care Act.

A Commonwealth Report evaluating 11 countries’ health systems put the U.S. dead last for the fifth time since the report has been published. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, used criteria such as quality, efficiency and access to care to reach its conclusion. But it also expects the U.S. scores to be better next time the report is published since it has implemented the Affordable Care Act.

The UK came out on top, spending only $3,406 per person, on average, compared with $8,508 in the U.S. But for all the money the U.S. spends, the report suggests it has little to show for it.  Here’s how the assessment of the U.S. healthcare ranking went:

Healthy lives: The U.S. ranked last on infant mortality and on potentially preventable deaths with timely access to effective health care and second-to-last on healthy life expectancy at 60...