The USA has the highest health care expenditure of any industrialised nation (currently USDollars 25 trillion or roughly 20% of GDP), yet it ranks 29th in infant mortality and 45th in life expectancy; a third of every health-care dollar is spent on bureaucracy. 46 million US citizens do not have health insurance (costing Dollars 123 billion annually in acute emergency care). Forthosewho are insured, health resources are controlled by third parties (employers and insurance companies). Most personal bankruptcies are caused by health-care debts.
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