Health in the US is in a sad state. We spend over $9,000 per person per year, yet have the same life expectancy (79.8 years vs 79.4 years) as someone in Cuba, who only spends $300 per year on health care. We are over doctored, over medicated and it is underwhelming. Preventable harm to patients, either through correct or incorrect medications, necessary or unnecessary surgery, diseases caught in the hospital, doctor error, etc is the third leading cause of death in the US, killing 400,000 people per year. According to Death By Medicine, if you record unreported deaths, the toll reaches...
Health in the US is in a sad state. We spend over $9,000 per person per year, yet have the same life expectancy (79.8 years vs 79.4 years) as someone ...