We do lead in spending though, but the rest of the results were not real attractive and dropped down 2 points from 2006. The one big plus was the reduction of blood pressure in the survey. Efficiency was 53 because minimal use of information technology, and high insurance administrative costs, and a couple other items. Lack of electronic records and insurance are biting us even on the global scale. BD
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States fails on most measures of health care quality, with Americans waiting longer to see doctors and more likely to die of preventable or treatable illnesses than people in other industrialized countries, a report released on Thursday said. Americans squander money on wasteful administrative costs, illnesses caused by medical error and inefficient use of time, the report from the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund concluded.
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