U.S. Health System Among Least Efficient Before Obamacare - Bloomberg

U.S. Health System Among Least Efficient Before Obamacare - Bloomberg



...There’s a lack of accountability among Americans, according to policy experts. “We keep protecting individuals from the health-care costs that come from the fact that we don’t have healthy lifestyles,” Cindy Gillespie, a senior managing director at the law and policy firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. “We haven’t accepted that people have an element of personal responsibility around their health.”...



...For example, Singapore hospital wards are classified by amenities and level of government subsidy provided, according to the book Affordable Excellence, the Singapore Healthcare Story by William Haseltine, president of the consulting group Access Health International. The wards range from A, where there are private rooms and a choice of doctors, to C, where as many as nine people share a room and doctors are assigned. People in A wards don’t get a subsidy while those in C wards get 80 of their care paid for by the government....