Some disturbing new hit the Internet and the papers across America regarding health care.

And it wasn’t good news.

Did you see it, or did it slip by you?

Here are some of the headlines I saw:

“US Worst in Healthcare”

“France Best, US Worst in Preventable Healthcare”

“US Health Care Ranks Poorly Compared To Other Nations”

Here’s the deal – a new study by British researchers found that more than 100,000 Americans died from health problems that could have been prevented by timely and effective health care last year.

The study by Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ranks the United States last among 19 developed nations in terms of health care. France, Japan and Australia topped the list. If the US performed as good as those top 3 countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year.

They also found that all countries in the study reduced their preventable deaths over a 5 year period by 16%, but the United States improved by only 4%.

What’s sad is the United States now spends a whopping $2.1 Trillion a year on health care each year…more than $7,000 a person. The problem is this spending does not equal better health care.

So what can you do to avoid a preventable death? You’ve got to make your health one of your top priorities and do things on a regular basis to keep yourself as healthy as possible. Don’t allow yourself to become a victim of our failing health care system.