France best, US worst in preventable death ranking http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN07651650
Tue Jan 8, 2008
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN07651650