Tuesday, August 5, 2025

America's Flawed Healthcare System

Republicans used to trumpet the innovation of the American medical sector. Now they’re taking a meat axe to it.

America’s sickness economy: The US’s exceptional healthcare expenditure yields second-rate results 
https://www.ft.com/content/352bb9d9-cbdf-43e5-bb84-1c75c6267d89 

How Chronic Disease Became the Biggest Scourge in American Health
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/chronic-disease-america-charts-b74372ac

Fed up with U.S. health care costs, these Americans moved abroad
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-u-health-care-costs-183528947.html


Venus Williams Exposed All That’s Wrong with Health Insurance
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-04/venus-williams-exposed-all-that-s-wrong-with-health-insurance
Policymakers have made clear that rather than rock this boat, they’d prefer to wait for it to tip over on its own. 

National Health Expenditure Projections, 2024–33: Despite Insurance Coverage Declines, Health to Grow as Share of GDP (Health Affairs, July 2025).
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00545 


Exercise like the Dutch, eat like the Japanese and treat cancer like the Finns – why other nations hold the secret to a better quality life by Lauren Shirreff
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/conditions/ageing/countries-solve-britain-health-crisis/