Health Care Costs in The USA--I need this info for later....

Date:   2/3/2012 11:31:32 AM ( 12 y ago)

I WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW UP ON THIS IDEA
BUT NOT NOW


The US economy is being falsely uplifted on a false economic foundation of pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides, and GMO foods, and Big Ag that now proliferate and influence our food chain. This has created a Food Emergency. We can outgrow this by learning and applying true sustainable principles that can only grow from the ground up. I would like the e3′s to demonstrate these on campus. They are on track now to do so.


HEALTH CARE COSTS IN THE USA


Life expectancy at birth in the USA is 50th in the world, below most developed nations and some developing nations. It is below the average life expectancy for the European Union.[11][12] The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).[13][14] The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among similar countries,[15] and notes U.S. care costs the most.[16]
The USA is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage (i.e., some kind of private or public health insurance).[17] In 2004, the Institute of Medicine report observed "lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States."[17] while a 2009 Harvard study estimated that 44,800 excess deaths occurred annually due to lack of health insurance.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States



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