Editorial: Health Spending Doesn’t Assure Good Health

A Los Angeles Times editorial argues that a recent report that found that U.S. residents are less healthy and have shorter life spans than people in other developed nations "should lend new urgency to Americans' slowly growing awareness that there is more to having the best health in the world than spending the most money on health care." The editorial adds that more preventive and primary care would help lower chronic disease rates, while the Affordable Care Act "will help by ensuring health coverage for more Americans."

• "Wealthy, but Not So Healthy" (Los Angeles Times, 1/12).