{"id":16745,"date":"2023-01-31T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16745"},"modified":"2023-01-31T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:46:55","slug":"the-sick-us-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16745","title":{"rendered":"The sick US health care system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Highlights of the Study<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Health care spending, both per person and as a share of GDP, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. is the only country that doesn\u2019t have universal health coverage.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions, the highest maternal and infant mortality, and among the highest suicide rates.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. has the highest rate of people with multiple chronic conditions and an obesity rate nearly twice the OECD average.<\/li>\n<li>Americans see physicians less often than people in most other countries and have among the lowest rate of practicing physicians and hospital beds per 1,000 population.<\/li>\n<li>Screening rates for breast and colorectal cancer and vaccination for flu in the U.S. are among the highest, but COVID-19 vaccination trails many nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/issue-briefs\/2023\/jan\/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of the Study Health care spending, both per person and as a share of GDP, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. is the only country that doesn\u2019t have universal health coverage. The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16749,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions\/16749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}