RFK Jr. says U.S. ranks low in health outcomes despite outspending other nations

Robert Kennedy Junior, in an interview with Dr. Mark Siegel from Fox, is considered not only to make America healthy again but also to improve the American health care system and pharmaceutical innovations.
The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior that the United States has one of the worst health results among other peer countries, although consumers are largely paid for care.
RFK JR. During an interview with Dr. Mark Siegel from Fox: “We spend two to three times what other countries pay for public health, and we have the worst results and this is unacceptable.”
He stated that during the four years the country will be “more than one part of the world” when it comes to developing medicines and some treatments for patients.
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In its study of the 2024 mirror, the Commonwealth Fund compared the performance of health systems in 10 countries, including the United States. The results of the United States recently occupied, leaving Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, in terms of health results.
Anna Elsi Ramirez Diaz holds her son, Milan Rojas Ramirez, as Dr. Margaret Ann Fernandez sees it during a visit to an examination at the Innova Curiz Clinic for Children on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at the Fols Church. (Matt MacLean / Washington Post via Getti Emponon / Tire)
The eighth report of the Commonwealth Fund, which aims to shed light on the lessons of the experiences of these countries, was specially interested in how to inform them of improving the health system in the United States
According to the report, the differences between other countries were “relatively small”. In comparison, the United States has described it as “a category of itself in the weak performance of the health care sector” given that the other nine countries “found a way to meet their basic health care needs, including comprehensive coverage,” as stated in the report.
The Peterson Foundation stated that the wealthy countries will spend more on health care than countries that are less richer. However, the United States spends nearly twice an individual on health care compared to large and wealthy countries, however, its health results are not better than those in other developed countries, according to the institution.
A patient awaits a room in the doctor’s office. (Istock / Istock)
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“The United States is actually worse on some common health standards such as average life expectancy, infant deaths, unspecified diabetes, and during childbirth,” said the Peterson Foundation report in August 2024.
The United States has also witnessed exacerbation of health results since the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the PETERSON-Kff Health System, the average life expectancy was similar in the United States and the average peer in 1980 at about 73.7 and 74.6 years, respectively. However, peer countries have witnessed a faster improvement in the average life expectancy in the following decades. The gap between the United States and the countries of peers grew more during the epidemic. In 2022, the average life expectancy was 77.5 years in the United States, while the average life expectancy in similar countries was 82.2 years on average.
There was an increasing hostility against the health care system in the United States, as consumers separated from companies to put profits over human life.
The headphone on the bed in the children’s intensive care unit at the Pediatrics Department at Essen University Hospital. (Rolf Venneenbernd / Picure Allance via Getty Images / Getty Images)
In particular, the entire insurance industry faced an attack from public audit due to its denying its care even before the CEO of UNITEDHEALTH BRIAN Thomboson was shot outside the New York City Hotel in December, as the police described it as a “previously targeted attack.”
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For example, a The Senate Sub -Committee UNITEDHEALTHECARE Group accused last fall of refusing to claim increasing number of patients as she tried to take advantage of artificial intelligence to automate this process.
The report claimed that the pre -deprivation rate of UNITEDHEALTHCARE after the sharp care jumped from 10.9 % in 2020 to 22.7 % in 2022.
United refuted these allegations, saying that the report “controls the Medicare Advantage program and our clinical practices.”
2025-03-07 18:29:00