American Health Care

Sharon Astyk of Casabon's Book.

We only spend twice as much on medical care as most Europeans, but we report that we’re four times as unhappy with our healthcare system, so I bet if we worked on getting our spending up, we could be 10 times as unhappy with our medical care. One of the largest studies of end of life care in American history discovered that 65% of Americans die “in debt, in pain and alone.” Now I don’ t know about you, but that sounds pretty much like everyone’s worst nightmare. The same study found that many other nations do a vastly better job of simply making sure you don’t hurt and you have someone there. But here, the suffering costs extra.