Rank of US healthcare system in cost and effectiveness in world is the worst of developed countries.

Most Americans have no idea about the state of our terrible healthcare system.

The US healthcare system while it is the most costly in the world at #1 only ranks #69 in performance and outcomes. The UK by contrast ranks #34 twice as good as the US and Canada ranks #20 and Italy #17, and Japan #2 and Singapore #1. China is #5 and Taiwan is #4.

What is wrong with the US system? The desire for profit in what should be a basic nonprofit human service skews the creation and maintenance of the US.. Americans have all the TVs, microwaves, air conditioners, and cheap consumer goods they want, but basic human services like health care, schooling, policing, housing, child care, and social welfare are deficient compared to other countries.

Americans have no idea how badly we stack up to other developed nations when it comes to basic health and human services. The problem is our capitalistic system which makes profit the driving force in the development and maintenance of thes health and human service systems.. Until Americans have a change of heart in their basic values we will continue to compare poorly to other developed countries.

Americans, because of their individualistic, dog eat dog, zero sum thought systems blame poor health and well being on personality characteristics while the status of health and well being is much more predicted by social factors than individual ones.

The values hierarchy in America is badly out of whack. The first step in improvement is understanding the problem, the factors contributing to it, and crafting and intervention into the system to change it or opt out of it as much as possible and create a new one.