Malpractice in the News: U.S. Healthcare Deemed "Dysfunctional," according to JAMA Essayist
MALPRACTICE IN THE NEWS: An Associated Press article states that the U.S. healthcare system is "a dysfunctional mess," according to an essay by a prominent ethicist at the National Institutes of Health. ''If a politician declares that the United States has the best health care system in the world today, he or she looks clueless rather than patriotic or authoritative,'' Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Emanuel, who supports sweeping health care reform, said the U.S. spends $6,000 per person per year on health care, an amount that is more than 16 percent of the nation's gross domestic product and more than any other country.
He also said Americans' average life expectancy of 78 ranks 45th in the world, behind Bosnia and Jordan. And the U.S. infant death rate is 6.37 per 1,000 live births, higher than that of most developed nations.
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