How Do You Compare And Contrast American Health Care With Other Countries?
Comparing the U.S. health care system with that of other countries is challenging. There is a lot of data that is organized in many different ways and measures widely divergent factors. What you conclude will depend on who you believe and which factors are the most important to you. Collect your data. There is a wealth of data available. The Common Wealth Fund is a private foundation working toward a high performance health system that has a wide variety of information available at their website. The World Health Organization has a statistical information system online (WHOSIS) that includes world health statistics. The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers whose companies provide healthcare, released a Business Roundtable Health Care Value Comparability Study that is available online. Decide which factors are most important to you. In The Boston Globe, Jonathan Cohn states that “what most Americans say they want is timely, quality care.” Is he right? Before y
