Countries Spending the Most on Healthcare
reducing the proportion of adults who smoke tobacco , coming down from 19 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2012 – the lowest rate after Mexico , Sweden and Iceland . Obesity rates however have been on the rise to reach 35.3 percent in 2012 , the highest rate among OECD countries . While most OECD countries were funded disproportionately by public sources , healthcare spending in the
U . S . was divided evenly between public and private sources . Despite spending the most , however , the U . S . had one of the lowest life expectancies , resting at 78.7 years . The slower progress in life expectancy is due to gaps in health insurance coverage and proper primary care , poorer health-related behaviors and poor living conditions for a significant proportion of the U . S . population .
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