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A report from the Business Roundtable, which is comprised of CEOs from major companies, recently graded America as failing when it comes to health care.
According to the report, America's health care system costs too much and is ineffective. Americans spend $2.4 trillion a year on health care. The Business Roundtable report says Americans in 2006 spent $1,928 per capita on health care, at least two-and-a-half times more per person than any other advanced country.
The report measured statistics on health factors, such as death rates and blood pressure rates, and placed them in a 100-point scale.
The United States is 23 points behind five leading economic competitors: Canada, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. Each of those companies fully cover their citizens.
The U.S. is 46 points behind China, Brazil and India.
The study asserted that other countries do a better job of using funding and resources to effectively take care of their citizens. They spend less and have healthier workers, according to the report.
The report authors say the results are "eye-opening."
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What a bunch of baloney. Whoever did the report is full of it. If India, China and Brazil do better its for the value of their treatments they don't pay much so seem to be getting their moneys worth.
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