A sobering new look at the U.S. health care system

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U.S. health care system falling behindBy LARRY WHEELER Gannett News Service

WASHINGTON - The nation’s youngest and oldest citizens are suffering the most from a fragmented, wasteful and in some cases dangerous health care system, according to a new study. When compared to nearly two dozen other industrialized countries, the U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy for people who have reached the age of 60. Those statistics were part of a sobering new look at the U.S. health care system released today by The Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System.

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It's sobering all right, considering that we're spending nearly twice as much per capita than most other industrialized countries.

Andy Gach