Studies Show US Spending Doesn't Get Best HealthThe United States may spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries but it is not getting results to match, according to three studies released on Tuesday
But in the studies of five wealthy countries, published in the journal Health Affairs, researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system
Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University"s school of public health and colleagues came up with a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries -- Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and the United States
"None of the five countries
is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators," Anderson told a telephone briefing for reporters
"If you are looking