Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued the United States has 1 of the worst wellness outcomes among different adjacent nations contempt consumers paying substantially much for care.
"We walk 2 to 3 times what different countries wage for nationalist health, and we person the worst outcomes and that's not acceptable," RFK Jr. said during an interrogation with Fox’s Dr. Marc Siegel.
He touted that successful 4 years the state volition beryllium "even much the halfway of innovation astir the globe" erstwhile it comes to processing drugs and definite therapies for patients.
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In its Mirror 2024 study, the Commonwealth Fund compared the show of wellness systems successful 10 countries, including the United States. Its findings ranked the U.S. last, trailing down Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, successful presumption of wellness outcomes.
It was the Commonwealth Fund’s eighth report, which aimed to item lessons from the experiences of these nations, with peculiar attraction to however they mightiness pass wellness strategy betterment successful the U.S.
According to the report, the differences betwixt the different countries were "relatively small." Comparatively, the U.S. was described arsenic being successful "a people by itself successful the underperformance of its healthcare sector" fixed that the different 9 countries "found a mode to conscionable their residents’ astir basal wellness attraction needs, including cosmopolitan coverage," the study read.
The Peterson Foundation reported that wealthier countries volition walk much connected healthcare than countries that are little affluent. That said, the U.S. spends astir doubly arsenic overmuch per capita connected healthcare compared to likewise ample and affluent nations and yet, its wellness outcomes are not immoderate amended than those successful different developed countries, according to the foundation.
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"The United States really performs worse successful immoderate communal wellness metrics similar beingness expectancy, babe mortality, unmanaged diabetes, and information during childbirth," August 2024 Peterson Foundation study read.
The U.S. has besides seen worsening measures of wellness outcomes since the COVID-19 pandemic too.
According to the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, beingness expectancy was akin successful the U.S. and adjacent countries connected mean successful 1980 astatine astir 73.7 and 74.6 years, respectively. However, adjacent nations saw much accelerated betterment successful beingness expectancy successful the pursuing decades. The spread betwixt the U.S. and adjacent nations grew adjacent much during the pandemic. In 2022, beingness expectancy successful the U.S. 77.5 years, portion the beingness expectancy successful comparable countries was 82.2 years connected average.
There has been increasing animosity against the U.S. healthcare strategy arsenic consumers lambast companies for putting profits supra quality lives.
The full security manufacture successful peculiar has faced an onslaught of nationalist scrutiny implicit its denials of attraction adjacent earlier UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thomposon was gunned down extracurricular a New York City edifice successful December successful what constabulary person called a "pre-meditated, targeted attack."
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For instance, a Senate subcommittee accused UnitedHealthcare Group past autumn of denying claims to a increasing fig of patients arsenic it tried to leverage artificial quality to automate the process.
The study claimed that UnitedHealthcare’s anterior authorization denial complaint for post-acute attraction jumped from 10.9% successful 2020 to 22.7% successful 2022.
United refuted these claims, saying the study "mischaracterizes the Medicare Advantage programme and our objective practices."
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