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Healthcare in the United States is largely provided by private sector healthcare facilities, and paid for by a combination of public programs, private insurance, and out-of-pocket payments. The U.S. is the only developed country without a system of universal healthcare , and a significant proportion of its population lacks health insurance .
Gaffney, Adam, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler, "The Only Way to Fix US Health Care" (partly a review of Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, Portfolio, 2023, 275 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXXI, no. 17 (7 November 2024), pp. 34, 36–38. "Under our patchwork public ...
A 2007 article from The BMJ by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein strongly argued that the United States' healthcare model delivered inferior care at inflated prices, and further stated: "The poor performance of US health care is directly attributable to reliance on market mechanisms and for-profit firms and should warn other nations ...
The health system in the U.S. is failing, a startling new report finds. The U.S. ranks as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of health care, including preventing ...
It’s a lofty goal, considering nearly 1-in-12 adults (8%) owe medical debt totaling at least $220 billion as of December 2021, according to a 2024 Peterson-KFF analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
The United States healthcare system is currently ranked dead last when compared to other high-income countries, according to a new report. The report — published Sept. 19 by independent research ...
States play a variety of roles in the health care system including purchasers of health care and regulators of providers and health plans, [169] which give them multiple opportunities to try to improve how it functions. While states are actively working to improve the system in a variety of ways, there remains room for them to do more.
Dr. Paul Starr suggests in his analysis of the American healthcare system (i.e., The Social Transformation of American Medicine) that Richard Nixon, advised by the "father of Health Maintenance Organizations", Dr. Paul M. Ellwood Jr., was the first mainstream political leader to take deliberate steps to change American health care from its ...