Report: US on short end of health care 'value gap' - washingtonpost.com

The report from the Business Roundtable, which represents CEOs of major companies, says America's health care system has become a liability in a global economy.

Americans spend $2.4 trillion a year on health care. The Business Roundtable report says Americans in 2006 spent $1,928 per capita on health care, at least two-and-a-half times more per person than any other advanced country.

The United States is 23 points behind five leading economic competitors: Canada, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The five nations cover all their citizens, and though their systems differ, in each country the government plays a much larger role than in the U.S.

The cost-benefit disparity is even wider _ 46 points _ when the U.S. is compared with emerging competitors: China, Brazil and India.

Other countries spend less on health care and their workers are relatively healthier, the report said.

So you have to ask how they logically reach this conclusion:

The CEOs of the Business Roundtable believe health care for U.S. workers and their families should stay in private hands, with a government-funded safety net for low-income people.

Oh yeah, they are asking people like the CEO of the insurance company Cigna what he thinks. Protect profit at all costs is how. Fools.