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Studies Show US Spending Doesn’t Get Best Health
The United States many spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries1, but it is not getting results to match2 according to studies released on Tuesday.
But in the study of five wealthy countries, published in the journal Health Affairs, researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system.
Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University’s school of public health and colleagues came up with3 a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries —Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and the United States.
"None of the five countries is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators." Andersonsaid during a telephone briefing for reporters.
"If you are looking for the place to get the best care, there isn’t a single place. Every country has at least one indicator where it scores the best of the five countries and each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries. "
But, he said, theUnited Statesis not getting value for money. "TheUnited Statesshould be particularly concerned about these results, given that we spend twice as much on health care as any other country. So spending more doesn’t necessarily result in4 "better outcomes."
Anderson’s group of international health experts sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study, getting the latest possible data from the five countries on areas such as breast cancer and leukemia survival, suicide rates, death rates from asthma, vaccination rates and cancer screening.
词汇：
Indicator /ˈɪndɪkeɪtə(r)/ n．指标；指示者
Leukemia / l(j)u:"ki:mɪə/ n．白血病
Briefing / ˈbri:fɪŋ / n．基本情况介绍会
Asthma /ˈæsmə/ n．哮喘 ’
Commonwealth /ˈkɒmənwelθ/ n．联邦
Vaccination /ˌvæksɪ"neɪʃn/ n．种痘
Breast / [brest/ n．乳房；乳腺
1.spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries:在卫生保健方面的花费是其他富裕国家的两倍
The US spends twice as much on health care as other rich countries
A:Right B:Wrong C:Not mentioned
Studies Show US Spending Doesn’t Get Best Health
The United States many spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries1, but it is not getting results to match2 according to studies released on Tuesday.
But in the study of five wealthy countries, published in the journal Health Affairs, researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system.
Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University’s school of public health and colleagues came up with3 a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries —Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and the United States.
"None of the five countries is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators." Andersonsaid during a telephone briefing for reporters.
"If you are looking for the place to get the best care, there isn’t a single place. Every country has at least one indicator where it scores the best of the five countries and each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries. "
But, he said, theUnited Statesis not getting value for money. "TheUnited Statesshould be particularly concerned about these results, given that we spend twice as much on health care as any other country. So spending more doesn’t necessarily result in4 "better outcomes."
Anderson’s group of international health experts sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study, getting the latest possible data from the five countries on areas such as breast cancer and leukemia survival, suicide rates, death rates from asthma, vaccination rates and cancer screening.
词汇：
Indicator /ˈɪndɪkeɪtə(r)/ n．指标；指示者
Leukemia / l(j)u:"ki:mɪə/ n．白血病
Briefing / ˈbri:fɪŋ / n．基本情况介绍会
Asthma /ˈæsmə/ n．哮喘 ’
Commonwealth /ˈkɒmənwelθ/ n．联邦
Vaccination /ˌvæksɪ"neɪʃn/ n．种痘
Breast / [brest/ n．乳房；乳腺
1.spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries:在卫生保健方面的花费是其他富裕国家的两倍
The other four countries provide better health care than the US
A:Right B:Wrong C:Not mentioned
Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any far away places for they had no vehicle to carry them across the wide oceans, deep valleys, long rivers or high mountains.
Nowadays people take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes and modern bridges. Airplanes can carry us to the far countries in a short time; steamships can travel across the wide oceans. It is convenient to the modern people.
Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more knowledge, such as the customs, the geography of other countries. And people could travel among the different countries in the world. For it is easy to travel from the land by trains, or from the sea by ships.
We learnt that the Italian who made the world large was Mr. Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of traveling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.
There is a saying in China, which is "Travelling for thousands is better than reading for ten years." It is to say that we can learn more in different places than we can learn from books.
The people in ancient times couldn’t travel too far away places because______.
A:they found it no use doing so B:they liked staying at home C:there was no modern transportation D:they were forbidden to go to other countries
Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any far away places for they had no vehicle to carry them across the wide oceans, deep valleys, long rivers or high mountains.
Nowadays people take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes and modern bridges. Airplanes can carry us to the far countries in a short time; steamships can travel across the wide oceans. It is convenient to the modern people.
Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more knowledge, such as the customs, the geography of other countries. And people could travel among the different countries in the world. For it is easy to travel from the land by trains, or from the sea by ships.
We learnt that the Italian who made the world large was Mr. Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of traveling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.
There is a saying in China, which is "Travelling for thousands is better than reading for ten years." It is to say that we can learn more in different places than we can learn from books.
The people in ancient times couldn’t travel too far away places because______.
A:they found it no use doing so B:they liked staying at home C:there was no modern transportation D:they were forbidden to go to other countries
According to the passage, our impressions of other countries and their people are usually developed ______.
A:through first-hand experience B:in the very countries C:through friendships with people D:through various sources of experience
"Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather". This statement suggests that
A:other countries do not have fine weather. B:you cannot experience four seasons in a year in England. C:the weather in England often changes and is therefore unique. D:the weather in England never changes.
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