Unless you’re extremely wealthy and live in an elitist bubble, you probably don’t need a study to tell you the American health care system is not working. But you may not have known just how poorly it stacks up to other wealthy countries. From CNN: Compared with nine other high-income nations, the United States ranked last overall this year, with a lower life expectancy and higher rates of death and disease despite spending the most on health care, according to the report, released Thursday by the independent research group The Commonwealth Fund. The three top-performing countries in the report were Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. “This report reveals that our health system is continuing to lag far behind other nations when it comes to meeting our citizens’ basic health care needs.

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