Glaring Problems in Our Health Care System

Dollar for public dollar, the United States may have the worst health care system in the world

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The number of COVID deaths in the United States dwarfs that of any other country. According to Statista.com, as of April 11, well over 1 million Americans have died. The United States is a large country, so a high number of deaths might be expected.

But the U.S. also ignominiously ranks in the top 10 in the number of deaths per capita, along with much poorer countries such as Chile and the Philippines, according to Johns Hopkins’s Coronavirus Resource Center.