Six Countries Compared to the USA
First Time?: if this is your first time to this web page you may be interested in going the the explanation about the six countries and their superstar status with respect to health care.
What Can and Will Happen
When the U.S. Performs Well
Compared to the Six Other Countries
Introduction:
The first step, as indicated below, is to eliminate the waste of unnecessary bureaucracy.
Then, as seen in the set of charts below:
we’ll have lower costs, more physician visits,
and an elimination of medical-related bankruptcies.
We’ll then also be doing a better job of saving lives, such as
— better amenable mortality (minimizing deaths under age 75
due to preventable diseases)
— saving women’s lives, as per maternal mortality
— longer lives as per better life expectancy and percent elderly.
Can we implement this quickly? Yes; as seen below,
we have the necessary people and resources.
Starting Point:
We Will Eliminate the Waste
by implementing Improved Medicare for All
The starting point will be cost reduction, which can and will be achieved with Improved Medicare for All (explanation). That method of paying for health care, via single-payer health care, will eliminate unnecessary administrative functions: unnecessary bureaucracy. The benefits of the improved efficiency is over $400 billion per year that is being spent on administrative functions instead of health care.
The Elimination of Waste
Will Reduce the Cost Per Person
APPLES TO APPLES: basing the USA numbers on the insured. If the above chart was based on the number of insured, then the USA number would have to exclude the percent of Americans who are either underinsured or uninsured. The bar chart above would have a USA cost per person of $11,319 instead of $6,565. For those who consider these numbers a more “apples to apples” comparison, the other countries spend 25% of what the U.S. does per person, not 44% of what the U.S. does per person.
The Lower Cost per Person
Will Improve Access as Seen in Physician Visits
Associated with Lower Costs …
We Will Slash the Number of Hardships
Such As Number of Bankruptcies
We Will Have Life-Saving Results
From the Lower Cost and Improved Access
Results
As indicated in the bar charts below,
— Our health will improve by minimizing deaths due to preventable diseases.
— We will save women’s lives, as measured by an improved maternal mortality ratio.
— Our lifespan will improve significantly.
— We will have longer, healthier lives, as also indicated by more people living to 65 years and older.Special Note: Our Focus on Health Care Access
Beyond health care access, this web page of data analysis does not include other factors which impact our health. Those other factors certainly also have an impact on health outcomes. But …
The premise of this web page … and the expected results … is that:
1) the United States is uniquely a very bad performer regarding health care;
2) the lowering of costs is an extremely obvious need for the U.S. compared to the other six countries;
3) the elimination of bureaucracy is a straightforward action that the U.S. can take;
4) the resulting lower costs and more doctor visits is simply plain common sense to have as a primary starting point for improving the physical and financial health of the Americans and America.
Based on the experiences of the other six countries …
We Will Perform Better in Minimizing Deaths
from Preventable Diseases
Unnecessary Death Every Five Minutes (101,000 per year). This situation should be enough for us to know that we must implement health care for all as quickly as possible via Improved Medicare for All.
About the United States’ Performance
The United States is reportedly very good at extending life of those persons who have preventable diseases. That situation is apparently for the people who can actually get to the doctor. Other countries provide the timely and effective care for more of their people. Other countries’ cost is lower, allowing more people to get to the doctor to get necessary care.
We Will Save Women’s Lives
Our Lifespan Will Increase
We Will Live Long, Healthy Lives
Summary
What is Possible (with a health care for all system) Because It’s Been Demonstrated
When we eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy
we will reducing the cost
so that more people can visit the doctor.The United States will do a better job of saving lives
… such as preventing deaths under the age of 75
and saving women’s lives, as per maternal mortality …
Then …
bankruptcies due to U.S. medical bills will go to zero;
life expectancy in the U.S. will increase, as also indicated by the percent elderly
The Implementation
About the Transition to Improved Medicare for All
- Number of Physicians per 1,000 population
- Since the U.S. has more physicians than two of the top performing countries, we should be able to smoothly manage the transition to having health care for all.
- Number of Nurses per 1,000 population
- We already have a comparable number of nurses for having health care for all.
- Number of Hospital Beds per 1,000 population
- We have a similar number of beds as four of the six countries, so we should be able to manage the transition to having health care for everyone.
Explanation(s), Sources, Additional Information
Explanation about R. C. Haiducek’s (Bob’s) use of the data for and average of six countries’ as reference points for the data analysis. The United States is compared to six countries in the bar charts of this web page.
- As you can see at all the bar charts, the six countries are: Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Italy, and Spain.
- As of 2010, they have a total of 244 (total) years of success at providing high quality health care for all at a very low cost relative to the United States.
- Australia 36 years, Canada 38 years, France 65 years
- Japan 49 years, Italy 32 years, Spain 24 years
- The populations of those six countries add up to a total of 375 million citizens. The United States population is 310 million.
- Most importantly, those countries are superstars when it comes to minimizing deaths under age 75 due to preventable diseases, thus having a low rate of amenable mortality:
France, Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy and Canada.
those countries in the order shown, are at the top (out of 19)
the USA is at the bottom.- Return to the starting point at the top of this web page after you please note that you can learn about the source of the data of the six countries below.
Sources and Additional Information
See Amenable Mortality for the source of that information from the University of London: a January 2008 report based on an analysis of 2002-2003 data.
For more information see the chart of the “Real People” web page.See OECD Health Data 2009 for the source of the OECD data. The bar chart data is based on available data for the 5 years 2003 through 2007. The OECD Health Data 2009 web page provides more explanation about how the data is reported. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an organization of 30 industrialized countries.
See Maternal Mortality regarding the 2008 data from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE).
See Improved Efficiency regarding the $400 billion of administrative cost.
Total Experience. The years of success is actually more if one considers all 18 countries which perform better than the United States: France, Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Austria, Germany, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Britain, Ireland, and Portugal.
Selected additional links related to this web page:
- Bureaucracy
- [Improved Efficiency](Improved_Efficiency]
Return to the starting point at the top of this web page.
Observations
When we recognize our health care crisis as a crisis, will we be able to implement an Improved Medicare for All quickly? As documented above, we should have enough physicians, nurses and hospital beds to proceed. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Where there is knowledge, there’s power.
- We will immediately have progress on saving a hundred thousand lives each year and free up four billion dollars each year that was spent on administrative costs.
- Current physicians and nurses and staff will spend less time on administrative topics and have more time to provide health care.
- We will readily have an influx of more medical professionals.
- We will have many medical professionals coming back to their practice for the initial years while new ones are added.
- More students will be interested in the medical profession knowing that there is:
- less administration
- lower operating costs for a physician practice (such as lower malpractice premiums)
- the opportunity to participate in a higher benefit to society than previously: by improving health, such as amenable mortality.
- Return to the starting point at the top of this web page.
List of the Bar Charts
- Cost per Person
- U.S. will cut over half of its costs per person by performing as well as other countries
- Physician Visits per 1,000 population
- More people will be able to go to the doctor when we perform as well as the other countries
- Bankruptcies due to medical bills
- Americans will join the other countries in having citizens experience ZERO bankruptcies due to the medical bills within their country
- Amenable Mortality among 19 countries
- USA will save 101,000 lives per year by performing as well as the top 3 countries: France, Japan and Australia
- Maternal Mortality Ratio
- Maternal mortality Ratio (deaths of women per 100,000 live births) will improve dramatically. It will be much safer for a woman to be pregnant and go through childbirth in the United States.
- Life Expectancy
- Americans will have the result of longer, healthier lives when the U.S. performs as well as other countries. In the other countries life expectancy is three years longer and the percent of elderly is 4% higher than the United States.
- We Can Implement Improved Medicare for All quickly, based on the number of physicians, nurses, and hospital beds
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