A National Research Council and Institute of Medicine panel has found that on average, "Americans die sooner and experience higher rates of disease and injury than people in other high-income countries." The panel also found "that this health disadvantage exists at all ages from birth to age 75 and that even advantaged Americans -- those who have health insurance, college educations, higher incomes, and healthy behaviors -- appear to be sicker than their peers in other rich nations." The panel was chaired by Dr. Steven H. Woolf, professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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