Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health

In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health.



Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up.



The problem, Sandro Galea argues, is that Americans focus on the wrong things when they think about health. Our national understa...