WITH the acrimonious debate over healthcare reform poised to return to Washington following Congress’s summer break, two new studies carry a clear message: don’t expect an expansion of insurance coverage alone to improve Americans’ health.
The law-makers are trying to revamp a system that spends around twice as much per person on healthcare as most European countries, while achieving worse health outcomes overall.
The US lags on measures such as life expectancy at birth and infant mortality. Now two teams, one led by Pierre-Carl Michaud of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, the other by Samuel Preston…
