A report issued today by the Commonwealth Fund further bolsters the case for fundamental health care reform.
The report, the second national scorecard prepared by an influential health policy research group, provides evidence of just how frequently the country falls short of its own standards of care and those of its global peers. While the United States spends more than twice as much per capita on health care as most other industrialized countries, including France, it has fallen to last place among those countries in being able to prevent deaths with timely and effective medical care, according the report by the Commonwealth Fund, a not-for-profit research group in New York.
Denis Cortese, M.D., Mayo Clinic’s CEO, was quoted in the International Herald Tribune article, saying “We need to generate better value in this country.” For more information about Mayo’s perspective on producing high-value health care through payment reform, see this post about a related New York Times editorial.
