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Rising medical costs are a worldwide problem, but nowhere are they higher than in the U.S. Although Americans with good health insurance coverage may get the best medical treatment in the world, the health of the average American, as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality, is below the average of other major industrial countries. Inefficiency, fraud and the expense of malpractice suits are often blamed for high U.S. costs, but the major reason is overinvestment in technology and personnel. America leads the world in expensive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as organ transplants, coronary artery bypass surgery and magnetic resonance imaging. Orange County, California, for example, has more MRI machines than all of Canada.
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