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." Anderson said 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, the United States is not getting value for money. "The United States should 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.

　　练习：

　　1.The US spends twice as much on health care as other rich countries.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　2.The US is the place where people get the best health care.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　3.Each year, the US spends more money on health care than the previous one.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　4.The more a country spends on health care, the better care its people enjoy.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　5.The study involved 5 countries and lasted 5 years.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　6.The other four countries provide better health care than the US.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　7.The US is determined to do something about its health care system.

　　A. Right　　B. Wrong　　C. Not mentioned

　　答案与解析

　　1.A　文章第一、六两段分别提到,美国在卫生保健方面的开支是其他富裕国家的两倍。

　　2.B　文章第二、五两段分别提到,在这五个国家中,没有一个国家能提供最好的卫生保健服务。

　　3.C　文章只说美国在卫生保健方面的开支是其他富裕国家的两倍,但并没有提及其卫生保健方面的开支是否在逐年递增。

　　4.B　文章第六段明确说明,并非卫生保健方面的开支越大,所提供的卫生保健服务就一定越好。

　　5.A　从文章的第二、七两段可以得知,该项研究涉及五个国家,历时五年。

　　6.B　文章只说美国在卫生保健方面的开支是其他富裕国家的两倍,而所提供的卫生保健服务却并非明显优于其他富裕国家。但并不能因此推断说其他富裕国家的卫生保健服务就优于美国。

　　7.C　文章第六段提到,美国应该特别关注此项研究的结果,但并没有表明美国已经下决心改善其卫生保健系统。

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