Why the entire U.S health insurance system is broken and the eventual likelihood of regulation of the health insurance industry. Don’t bet on it, though. The outcome is inevitable but the timing is uncertain. As the old saw goes, “What’s the difference between being wrong and early? None.”
Americans are dying sooner and living with more illness than residents of Slovenia and other less prosperous countries, according to the latest study showing the U.S. is getting a poor return on money it spends on care.
Americans lost more years of life to heart disease, lung cancer, preterm birth complications, diabetes and at least 21 other conditions in 2010 than most other members of the 34-country Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The study, released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, measured disease and risk factors in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010.
via U.S. Falls Behind Slovenia in Latest Review of Population Health – Bloomberg.