The United States healthcare system just received another failing grade. In a Commonwealth Fund study released Jan.8, researchers ranked the U.S. healthcare system as the worst among 19 industrialized countries.
The study considered preventable deaths due to treatable conditions before age 75. The number of deaths is affected directly by improvements in health care and living conditions. In the United States, the death rate is 109.7 deaths per 100,000 people. Preventable deaths accounted for 23 percent of all deaths for men and 32 percent for women. That is 101,000 deaths each year.
The fact that 47 million people in the United States are uninsured and the vast majority of the 250 million insured are underinsured is a crime. The U.S. ruling class does not care about providing affordable, adequate health care for workers. It only wants to make a profit the working-class’s expense.
