Healthcare in the United States of America

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by cali steffens0 views·Updated Dec 19, 2021

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  1. Oh, no.
  2. This is Kelly Stephens recording for my critical assignment for a social 335.
  3. Um, for my project today,
  4. I'm going to be doing it on the social issue of the United States health care system.
  5. Health care in the United States.
  6. Um, first of all, we'll go into what is the problem.
  7. So
  8. is the United States healthcare system broken? And what is the problem?
  9. So the flaws of the United States healthcare system include very high prices.
  10. Uh, this can be seen, for example,
  11. and the health care spending in the United States
  12. is far greater than in any other industrialized nation.
  13. Yet nearly every other nation has better health outcomes.
  14. For example, compared to the other O E C D countries, hospitalizations in the U.
  15. S are far less frequent and shorter.
  16. However, the spending per hospital discharge in the U. S.
  17. Is nearly three times higher than the O. E. C d. Medium