Life expectancy increases with health care spending except for guess where.

[eridani]

As you can see, there is a pretty close relationship between health-care spending and life expectancy. Except for one very, very terrible country. Can you spot it?



Yes, among this group of big countries, the U.S. spends far and away more on health care than any other. And yet it has among the lowest life expectancies of any developed country. People live longer in pretty much every country in Europe, including Greece, where the economy has been wracked by austerity for years.

"What bothers me most is not that we’re all the way on the right, or even that we are lower than we should be," Aaron Carroll, professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine wrote on his blog of the chart. "It’s that we are all alone. We are spending so, so, so much more than everyone else."

This confirms what we pretty much already knew about the terribleness of U.S. health care. The U.S. ranks 46th among 48 developed economies in health-care efficiency, according to a Bloomberg ranking, below China, Iran, Colombia and, you know, pretty much everybody else.

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. K&R. n/t

[BelgianMadCow]

2. Russia is pretty outlier-ish as well

what's up with that?

Very interesting graphic. Depending where you're born on this earth, your life expectancy can differ with as much as 20 years (given that many countries aren't even included in this graph). How can we even remotely believe this is a a fair state of affairs?

[malaise]

3. For profit healthcare does not help people

It's a racket from the cradle to the grave

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. We live longer, with better healthcare, for 1/2 the cost to USAmericans.

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Not only that -

WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT!

We are automatically covered from birth.

In the USA, large families that want decent coverage have to pay exponentially higher costs - increasing with the family size.

In Canada, every wage earner pays a small portion of their paycheck into our health system, whether they use it or not.

I'll make this simple.

I as a single guy I paid x amount of dollars of each paycheck into the system.

The guy with a wife and six kids (or more) PAYS THE SAME as me!

Better yet, those contributions are REDUCED in the form of a rebate at income tax time depending on how many dependants he has.

And the homeless, those on social assistance etc, GET THE SAME BENEFITS AS A MILLIONAIRE;

without having to fork out a dime.

makes ya ponder, no?

CC