17 Examples of America's Broken Health Care System

by Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool Jul 10th 2012 10:54AM
Updated Jul 10th 2012 11:02AM

Regardless of how you feel about last week's Supreme Court ruling upholding most of Obamacare, one thing is clear: America's health care system is broken, unsustainably expensive, and often embarrassing compared with the systems of other developed nations.

Here are 17 charts showing why.

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