September 22, 2000

Good Health Care Is More Than Medicine

By RICHARD D. LAMM

Americans frequently assert that the United States has the best health-care system in the world. Yet according to "The World Health Report 2000," published in June by the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 37th out of 191 countries in health-care systems, behind most of the rest of the developed world. Have we let our doctors and medical schools convince us that medical care, not health, is what counts?

The United States clearly has the best medical technology, the

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