Mirror, Mirror 2024: A portrait of the failing U.S. health system (19 September 2024)

Summary

This report compares health system performance in 10 countries. It provides analysis of 70 health system performance measures in five areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes. The top three countries are Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, although differences in overall performance between most countries are relatively small. The only clear outlier is the United States, where health system performance is dramatically lower.