> On the other hand, even countries that have tried to control their healthcare costs have generally failed to make much impact. Because healthcare is an ever

> On the other hand, even countries that have tried to control their healthcare costs have generally failed to make much impact. Because healthcare is an ever expanding, ever innovating industry with infinite scope. For countries with universal healthcare this is painfully obvious. What once was a service in the 1950s to perform what now would be considered very rudimentary procedures and proscribe < 1% of contemporary drugs, now do space age procedures as if routine and treatment plans that took decades of international cooperation to develop. > In all OECD countries, unfortunately, healthcare spending doesn't seem to be especially correlated with increased lifespace. Diseases of plenty now represent greater harm in most of the developed world than do ailments of scarcity.