The answer is money. The question is why is our health care delivery system so expensive and inefficient.
We are Number One. We are Number One in the world in the amount we pay per person for health care. Where we are not Number One is in our health care outcomes. Sadly, we are way down the list, despite how much we spend. The Commonwealth Fund, a non-profit dedicated to improving health care in the United States, is over 100 years old. It regularly compares our health care system to those of the rest of the developed world. One of