Healthcare is Expensive and Inefficient

The headline posted on MSNBC by Reuters on May 15, 2007...

U.S. health care is Expensive and Inefficient. America ranks last among six countries on key measures!

Americans get the poorest health care and yet pay the most compared to five other rich countries, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Germany, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada all provide better care for less money, the Commonwealth Fund report found.

“The U.S. health care system ranks last compared with five other nations on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes,” the non-profit group, which studies health care issues, said in a statement.

I have many subscribers to this site from outside the U.S. I would love to hear from,learn from and welcome any comments on how their health care is and the associated cost.

For my U.S. subscribers I ask you for a favor.

Please take care of yourself.

Exercise, eat right, stretch, meditate, walk, whatever just do something.

In the U.S. there is talk of universal health care.

I worry about that based upon the operations of our current government health care such as Medicare, Medicaid and VA system.

It is now much easier to take care of ourselves than it has ever been.

We know more now than we did 10 years ago about nutrition and exercise.

You just have to begin.

To Your Good Health!

Dr. Michael Kaye