Why America is failing its health report card | Robert B Shpiner
Americans spend 18% of our economy on healthcare, nearly twice the average of comparable nations, for worse results The Commonwealth Fund published its 2026 report card on US healthcare this week, measuring the United States against 19 other wealthy countries. It runs the most expensive system on earth, and it buys some of the worst results in the developed world. I have spent more than four decades in the medical intensive care unit at UCLA, and I do not read those numbers as statistics. I rea…

