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eaders may be familiar with reports of a country where economic conditions have pushed the healthcare system toward collapse. The country's government reported in 2012 that “health care spending per person has grown faster than the nation's economic output per person during the past 25 years,” and that “such rates of growth cannot continue indefinitely, because if they did, total spending on health care would eventually account for all of the country's economic output—an impossible outcome” . Although the country's economy is large, its life expectancy among adults, rates of chronic disease and injuries among adolescents and children, and infant mortality all show it to be at a marked disadvantage among COMPARABLE high-income nations .

That country is the United STATES, where a recent report by the Institute of MEDICINE noted that “the American health–wealth paradox is a pervasive disadvantage that affects everyone, and it has not been improving” . Although income is not the sole explanation for poor health indicators in the US, tens of millions of Americans, characterized in part by race and relative poverty, experience levels of health that are TYPICAL of middle-income or low-income countries