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12 Jan 2021 By Robert Cyran Follow @rob_cyran

America overall spends heavily on medicine with little to show for it. Conventional wisdom holds that the most fortunate get world-beating care. But a new study suggests that in areas including heart attacks and maternal mortality, they lag average citizens in other countries.

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White U.S. citizens in the 1% and 5% highest-income counties across the nation had better health outcomes than average U.S. citizens, but they experienced worse outcomes than the average in other developed countries in infant mortality, maternal mortality, acute myocardial infarction and other areas according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Dec. 28.

U.S. healthcare spending declined 0.5% on an annualized basis in 2020 through October because of reduced demand for non-Covid care, according to a Peterson-KFF brief on Dec. 10. U.S. third-quarter GDP in 2020 was down 2.8% on the same period in 2019, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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