The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any nation in history. Americans keep dying earlier anyway.
The data points to structural issues that require deeper evaluation of how care is delivered and coordinated.
There's a lot to address in fixing this problem. We need to focus more on the social determinants of health, not just health as a single outcome, but the broader societal factors that affect individuals' health.
The food environment point is hard to unsee once you name it properly.
You can’t keep manufacturing sick people, then act shocked when the healthcare system spends a fortune trying to patch them up.
The data points to structural issues that require deeper evaluation of how care is delivered and coordinated.
There's a lot to address in fixing this problem. We need to focus more on the social determinants of health, not just health as a single outcome, but the broader societal factors that affect individuals' health.
The food environment point is hard to unsee once you name it properly.
You can’t keep manufacturing sick people, then act shocked when the healthcare system spends a fortune trying to patch them up.