Health Care in The United States

From 1980 to 2010, the population health has decreased the top leading causes of death, including certain cancers and circulatory system diseases in the United States. The mortality rate for deaths have gone down from 96 per 100,000 in 2004 to 86 per 100,000 in 2009-2010. Adults health were in either fair or good conditions have increased 13 percent in 1993 to 18 percent in 2013, as well as those in excellent conditions went from 25 percent to 19 percent. Adults stated they have had one day of poor physical health in 2013 than in 1993. The average number of days in adults who have had at least one day of poor physical health increased in lasting from 9 to 11 days.

In the United States, health care cost has increased throughout the years that it was about $3 trillion dollars in 2014. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) percentage in United States is slightly higher than the next highest developed countries, including France, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The United States spent 16.4 percent of GDP on health care compared to other developed countries with 11 percent in 2013. The amount of money United States spends is typically more than $8,700 per patient in health care that is not as twice as the amount France spent in 2013. However, France provides sufficient health services to their patients in receiving health care. In other developed countries they do not spend the same amount of money per person in health care as the United States does. Since health care is more expensive in the United States, there are a number of people who do not have access to health care without health insurance that decreases the number of people in the Affordable Care Act, whereas other developed countries would pay less in having universal access to health care.

The infant mortality rate in the United States have been progressing much slower than the developed countries. In the United States, the infant mortality rates have decreased about 13 percent from 2000 to 2013. However, it is about 42 percent higher than the comparable country average. About 66 percent neonatal deaths occurred more in the United States compared than the average country in which it has decreased by 13 percent in the United States and by 23 percent in developed countries. For perinatal mortality have a fewer perinatal deaths in United States compared to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.

Life expectancy at birth in 2015 for United States is 78.8 years which is lower than the comparable country average at 82 years. Both gender in women is 81.2 years and men is 76.4 years in United States, whereas the country average for women is 84.5 years and men is 79.5 years. Since 1980, women have slowly increased their life expectancy at birth up to four years in the United States. In comparison, the countries average is six years.

Obesity have one in five adults in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED) countries. Women in most countries are more obese than men. The adults” population in obesity throughout the OCED was 19.5 percent in 2015. The United States obesity and overweight prevalence rate have increased gradually since the 1990s. In 2015, the percentage population aged 15 years and over were 38.2 percent compared to the OCED countries were at 19.5 percent. In gender based for women is 40 percent and men is 35 percent in the United States. In the OCED countries for women is 20 percent and men is 1935 percent. The United States obesity rate is expected to increase by 47 percent up to the year 2030. There have been over 1.1 billion of people at the age-standardized prevalence of tobacco smoking among 15 years and older who smoked in 2015. The United States average is 17.2 percent compared to the OCED countries average value is 22.7 percent.

In 2013, the United States health expenditures was 16.4 percent of GDP compared to the OCED countries average of 8.9 percent. Health expenditures have been growing that the share of GDP spent on health care have not changed since 2009. From 2000 to 2013, the United States government health expenditure has increased from around 44 percent to above 48 percent. The public spending on total health in the United States is below 50 percent compared to the OCED countries with an average of 73 percent. In the adjusted for price levels United States spends $8,713 per head in 2013, whereas the average of OCED countries spends $3,453.