Europe healthier than U.S. - by Lisa Girion
Costly diseases, many of them related to obesity and smoking, are more prevalent among aging Americans than their European peers and add as much as $100 billion to $150 billion a year in treatment costs to the U.S. healthcare tab, a new study says. The study by researchers at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health found higher rates of several serious diseases -- including cancer, diabetes and heart disease -- among Americans 50 and older as compared with aging Europeans.
The U.S. healthcare system -- driven by when and how providers get paid -- does not promote prevention or effective and efficient disease management.
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In 2005, when living in New York and not having health insurance, I had to have a "root canal" job done on a tooth. I neequired about the cost and was old it woukd be at least $ 800. I immediately went to a ravel agent and got a return fligh to Brussels for $ 500. The complete work was done therfe for $ 130... That difference explains why aging Americans will cost 100 to 150 millions extra costs for the US healthcre system
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