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This is a list of countries ranked by the quality of healthcare, as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (). [1] The ranking takes into account various health outcomes, including survival rates for seven types of cancer, as well as for strokes and heart attacks.
The U.S. had the worst-performing healthcare system overall despite spending nearly double that of other countries. It also had the lowest ranking in access to care, health equity and health outcomes.
A peer-reviewed comparison study of healthcare access in the two countries published in 2006 concluded that U.S. residents are one third less likely to have a regular medical doctor (80% vs 85%), one fourth more likely to have unmet healthcare needs (13% vs 11%), and are more than twice as likely to forgo needed medicines (1.7% vs 2.6%). [46]
The United States is alone among developed nations in not having a universal health care system; the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a nationwide health insurance exchange that came to fruition in 2014, but this is not universal in the way similar countries mean it. [121]
Other nations depend on private insurers and a third group of countries, such as the United States, have a mixture of both. 10 Countries With the Most Well-Developed Public Health Care Systems ...
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As of 2015, the Maternal mortality ratio was 46th lowest out of the countries ranked. (See Maternal mortality in the United States.). Among wealthy nations, a study on 2016 data found the United States ranked first for child deaths by automobile accident and firearm, with overall child mortality 57% higher in the U.S. than other high-income countries, although traffic deaths were decreasing.
The U.S. spends more on health care relative to the size of its economy than any other nation, but its health care system ranks dead last among a group of its peers, according to a new analysis ...