Life, liberty, and the pursuit of healthcare? Privatized medical care scrutinized

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 05:32 in Health & Medicine

Privatized medical care in the US has contributed to greater wealth-health inequality than state-sponsored healthcare systems in Sweden, the UK, Israel, Germany, and the Czech Republic, researchers report. According to the study, the wealthiest older people in the US surprisingly suffered from worse health than the poorest older people in the other countries reviewed.

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