Robert Kennedy Jr., in an interview with Dr. Marc Siegel de Fox, promises not only to make America again healthy, but also to improve the American health system and pharmaceutical innovations.
Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that the United States has one of the worst health results among other peers despite consumers who pay much more for care.
“We spend two to three times what other countries pay for public health, and we have the worst results and it is not acceptable,” said RFK Jr. during an interview with Dr. Marc Siegel de Fox.
It has boasted that in four years, the country will be “even more the center of innovation in the world” when it comes to developing drugs and certain therapies for patients.
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In its Mirror 2024 study, Commonwealth Fund compared the performance of health systems in 10 countries, including the United States. Its conclusions ranked in the United States, dragging behind Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, in terms of health results.
Ana Elly Ramirez Diaz holds her son, Milan Rojas Ramirez as he is seen by Dr. Margaret-Anne Fernandez during a control visit to the Cares Clinic for children on Tuesday October 31, 2017 at the Falls Church. (Matt McClain / The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)
It was the eighth Commonwealth Fund report, which aimed to highlight the lessons of the experiences of these nations, with particular attention to the way they could shed light on the improvement of the health system in the United States
According to the report, the differences between other countries were “relatively low”. Compared, the United States has been described as “a class in itself in the underperformance of its health sector” since the other nine countries “have found a way to meet the most fundamental health care needs of their residents, including universal coverage,” said the report.
The Peterson Foundation said that richer countries will spend more health care than wealthy countries. That said, the United States spends almost twice as per capita on health care compared to the equally large and rich nations and However, its results for health are not better than those of other developed countries, according to the Foundation.
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“The United States actually obtains losses less well in certain common health measures such as life expectancy, infant mortality, unmanaged diabetes and security during childbirth,” said the report of the Peterson Foundation August 2024.
The United States has also experienced a worsening of health results measures from the COVVI-19 pandemic.
According to the Peterson-Kff health system tracker, life expectancy was similar to the United States and by counterparts on average in 1980 at around 73.7 and 74.6 years, respectively. However, peer nations have experienced a faster improvement in life expectancy over the following decades. The gap between American nations and peers increased even more during the pandemic. In 2022, life expectancy in the United States 77.5 years, while life expectancy in comparable countries was 82.2 years on average.
There has been an increasing animosity against the American health system while consumers are casting businesses for having made profits above human life.
A stethoscope is hung on a bed in the intensive care unit for children in the Pediatric Department of the Essen University Hospital. (Rolf Vennenbernd / Picture Alliance via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The entire insurance industry in particular has faced a public control attack on its refusal of care even before the CEO of Unitedhealth, Brian Thomposon, was killed outside a New York hotel in December in what the police called a “pre-house targeted attack”.
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For example, a Senate subcommittee Last fall, accused United, awarded allegations to an increasing number of patients when he was trying to take advantage of artificial intelligence to automate the process.
The report said that the rate of prior authorization of Unitedhealthcare for post-sued care increased from 10.9% in 2020 to 22.7% in 2022.
United refuted these claims, saying that the report “badly on the Medicare Advantage program and our clinical practices”.
