Ema
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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. It’s that we are all alone. We are spending so, so, so much more than everyone else. It’s not an even spread.
I don’t want to get into arguments about the fit of the line, or about the fact that there’s a cutoff.
It’s that those countries – representing lots more people than the US, by the way – are all in a reasonable relationship of more spending correlated with more life, to a point.
Then there’s us. The difference is so large, it must be defended. It must be justified. What are we spending the money on, if not extending life?
This question is especially important given the fact that we have so many people uninsured and barely able to access the system at all. We have so many people who don’t feel like they spend enough time with their doctors, or feel like they have to avoid care because of the cost.
What are we doing?
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/life-expectancy-and-health-care-spending/