{"id":411,"date":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/us-hospitals-struggle-in-quality-study\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:29","slug":"us-hospitals-struggle-in-quality-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/us-hospitals-struggle-in-quality-study\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Hospitals struggle in quality study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you wish that the old adage \u201cyou get what you pay for\u201d applied to everything in life. For the most part, it does. If you want to pay extra for a luxury vehicle, it will have features and overall performance that outshines an economy vehicle. The same goes for paying for first class tickets on an airplane as opposed to paying coach.<\/p>\n<p>However, what you may be paying for as far as medical services may not reflect the quality of service and advice you may receive. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/278463.php\" target=\"_blank\">performance evaluation<\/a> conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. health care system continually underperforms even though it is the most expensive in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were reached through an analysis of several factors, including:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/us-hospitals-struggle-in-quality-study\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading U.S. Hospitals struggle in quality study\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you wish that the old adage \u201cyou get what you pay for\u201d applied to everything in life. For the most part, it does. If you want to pay extra for a luxury vehicle, it will have features and overall performance that outshines an economy vehicle. The same goes for paying for first class tickets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Hospitals struggle in quality study &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 15, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"U.S. Hospitals struggle in quality study - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/us-hospitals-struggle-in-quality-study\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"U.S. Hospitals struggle in quality study &#8212; 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