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The United States pays more than twice per capita than Canada for healthcare, but with worse outcomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total
by bparsons 9y ago
The United States pays more than twice per capita than Canada for healthcare, but with worse outcomes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita#/media/File:OECD_health_expenditure_per_capita_by_country.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
The system in Canada isn't even close to the most efficient in the world. Many european countries manage to pay even less and produce even better outcomes.
- refurb 9y agoYou're link says nothing about outcomes. Have a source? It also depends on how you measure outcomes. The US exceeds other countries when it comes to things like cancer outcomes. It does poorly in things like life expectancy which is a terrible way to measure outcomes since so many other things other than medical care impact it.
- bparsons 9y agoAccess to primary care doctors, life expectancy, infant mortality, infectious disease rates. etc.
- smcl 9y agoEvery time US healthcare comes up the insane cost and relative poor quality is mentioned, it is met with "hmmm citation needed?" like it's not been covered to death already, then the citations are then generally ignored (like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136962). I do not understand why people are so defensive of such a plainly awful system
- refurb 9y agoI'm asking because I'm curious how they measured outcomes. Most of the studies I've seen are pretty bad. They measure outcomes with a very blunt tool. I was curious if something better was out there.