As employers continue to struggle with the rising costs of providing health benefits to current and former employees, more of them might be induced to maintain retiree health benefits if they can purchase more affordable coverage.
Cathy Schoen
Driven up by relatively high medication and lab or test errors, at 34 percent, the spread between the United States and the countries with the lowest error rates was wide.
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Overall patient experiences often paint a picture of no person or team responsible for ensuring that care is coordinated and continuous, with a focus on patients' needs.
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What's striking is that we are clearly a world leader in how much we spend on health care. We should be expecting to be the best. Clearly, we should be doing better.
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These patients are the canary in the coal mine of any health care system.
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The distinct majority [60 percent] said errors had occurred outside the hospital. In all countries, mistakes were more likely in patients who said they saw four or more physicians, signaling a failure to communicate across sites of care.
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The lack of waiting time in Germany was notable because they spend a lower percentage of their gross domestic product on health care than we do.
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The U.S. Is an outlier.
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We're finding a dramatic increase in the total number of families throughout the U.S. That are paying a high share of their income for medical bills. When you add in premiums, it's even higher.
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The first families that are feeling this in terms of a real squeeze are those that are on more restrictive incomes, those who can least afford it.
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