Could the problem with America’s health-care system lie not only with the American system but with American patients?”
Americans do not take prescribed medications. We make poor lifestyle choices. We demand expensive tests and scans and procedures. All of these factors contribute to making the American health care system costly while failing to produce very good outcomes, compared to other developed nations.
Source: Freedman, D.H. (2019, July). The worst patients in the world. The Atlantic, 324(1), 28-30. Click here for text: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/american-health-care-spending/590623/ Posted by AHA Resource Center (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org
Filed under: Patient care, Posted by Kim Garber, Value | Tagged: Cost of health care, Lifestyle, social determinants of health |
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