Is the current model best?

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I'm not sure my messages will come through. But here goes.

 

America has " the finest health care " in the world.

 

We don't. In terms of results, almost all advanced countries have better

national health statistics than the United States does. In terms of

finance, we force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of

medical bills. In France, the number of medical bankruptcies is zero.

Britain: zero. Japan: zero. Germany: zero.

 

Given our remarkable medical assets -- the best-educated doctors and

nurses, the most advanced hospitals, world-class research -- the United

States could be, and should be, the best in the world. To get there,

though, we have to be willing to learn some lessons about health-care

administration from the other industrialized democracies.

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