The United States may spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries but it is not getting results to match, according to studies released on Tuesday.

But in the study of five wealthy countries，published in the journal Health Affairs，researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system.

Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University’s school of public health and colleagues came up with a list of 2 1 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries— Australia, Canada，Britain，New Zealand and the United States.

“None of the five countries is consistently the best or the worst on all 2 1 indicators,” Anderson said during a telephone briefing for reporters.

“If you are looking for the place to get the best care.there isn’t a single place.Every country has at 1east one indicator where it scores the best of the five countries and each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries.’’

But，he said，the United States is not getting value for money.“The United States should be particularly concerned about these results, given that we spend twice as much on health care as any other country.So spending more doesn’t necessarily result in better outcomes.” 中 華 考 試 網(wǎng)

Anderson’s group of international health experts sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study，getting the latest possible data from the five countries on areas such as breast cancer and 1eukemia survival，suicide rates，death rates from asthma，vaccination rates and cancer screening.

詞匯：

indicator n.指標(biāo)，指示者

commonwealth n.聯(lián)邦

leukemia n.白血病

vaccination n.種痘

briefing n.基本情況介紹會

breast n.乳腺

asthma n.哮喘

1.The U.S.spends twice as much on health care as other rich countries

A Right

B Wrong

C Not mentioned

2. The U.S.is the place where people get the best health care.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not mentioned

3. Each year, the U.S. spends more money on health care than the previous one.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not mentioned

4.The more a country spends on health care，the better care its people enjoy.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not mentioned

5. The study involved 5 countries and lasted 5 years.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not mentioned

6.The other four countries provide better health care than the U.S.

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B Wrong

C Not mentioned

7. The U.S.is determined to do something about its health care system.

A right

B Wrong

C NOt mentioned

答案1.A 2.B 3.C 4.B 5.A 6.B 7.C