[anomaloustho]

Just to add some context. The U.S. ranks very highly in healthcare innovation, top marks in drug discovery, and highly in patient centric healthcare. The main component that you’ll see drag the U.S. down on those indexes is cost of healthcare, and that’s particularly weighed down in private insurance as opposed to Medicaid/Medicare.

Whether that cost is entirely good or bad is up for debate, as U.S. doctors get paid twice as much and perform twice as many interventions. First place countries usually have costs around 4K per person on healthcare. Other top countries around 6-7k, and the U.S. is at 10k.

But it is worth coloring exactly what we’re talking about when we say “abysmal rankings” because some folks might weigh the innovation and patient centered scores higher than the cost score.

[TheNewsIsHere]

I would like to tack onto this that compared to what it could/should be, our maternal mortality rate is an absolute national shame.