Puncturing myths...
Maybe the United States health care system isn't that bizarre after all.
Compared with peer nations, the United States sends people to the hospital less often, it has a smaller share of specialist physicians, and it gives people about the same number of hospitalizations and doctors' visits, according to a new study, Margot Sanger-Katz reports on nytimes.com.
The quality of health care looks pretty good, it finds, while its spending on social services outside of health care, like housing and education, looked fairly typical, Sanger-Katz wrote.
For more on an interesting study: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/upshot/united-states-health-care-resembles-rest-of-world.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=keywee&mccr=dommob&kwp_0=752580&kwp_4=2629187&kwp_1=1115461&dclid=CI669_-ovdoCFZC3yAodLYwCiQ
Photo: nytimes.com.
A brain surgery team in New York.
Maybe the United States health care system isn't that bizarre after all.
Compared with peer nations, the United States sends people to the hospital less often, it has a smaller share of specialist physicians, and it gives people about the same number of hospitalizations and doctors' visits, according to a new study, Margot Sanger-Katz reports on nytimes.com.
The quality of health care looks pretty good, it finds, while its spending on social services outside of health care, like housing and education, looked fairly typical, Sanger-Katz wrote.
For more on an interesting study: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/upshot/united-states-health-care-resembles-rest-of-world.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=keywee&mccr=dommob&kwp_0=752580&kwp_4=2629187&kwp_1=1115461&dclid=CI669_-ovdoCFZC3yAodLYwCiQ
Photo: nytimes.com.
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