Do we get what we pay for in healthcare spending?

I think the evidence is pretty clear that we don't. As the article points out, we're by far the biggest spender in the world, yet the quality of care we're getting doesn't measure up. If we spent that money more efficiently, we'd have the best health outcomes to go along with the best health professionals and technology. How do we do that? Single-Payer of course.

Canadians Healthier Than Americans, Survey Says

TUESDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Canadians are healthier than Americans, have better access to health care and have fewer unmet health needs, a new study of both countries reveals.

The findings come in spite of the fact that the United States spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as Canada, the researchers noted.

"This shows that you can spend much less than we [Americans] do, and deliver much more and better care then we do," said study co-author Dr. David U. Himmelstein, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. ...

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