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A new study has come out that measures the efficacy of a nation's health care system. It takes the new approach of asking how many people (as a percentage of the population) die unnecessarily from diseases that should be preventable. This controls for the fact that different countries have different incidences of particular illnesses. Out of 31 countries surveyed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States comes in 24th.
U.S. Health Care: We're Number 24!
Seeded on Fri Mar 4, 2011 9:57 AM EST
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