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Consider: - The US is much fatter, on average - Medicare's standards for reimbursement are often not based on cost effectivenes - The US government will pay aro
by i_am_proteus 8y ago
Consider:
- The US is much fatter, on average
- Medicare's standards for reimbursement are often not based on cost effectivenes
- The US government will pay around $150K/QALY vs. e.g. the UK's c. $40K/QALY.
More expensive healthcare per capita is what I'd expect given those attributes and "single payer is the only solution" does not seem to be logically linked to the problem and facts.
- tapland 8y agoYou are paying much more than anyone else[0]. I really doubt that's because of you being the 17th fattest country by BMI[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass_index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...
- i_am_proteus 8y agoPlease note that the data you link does not address obesity and health costs simultaneously! Obesity is indeed a contributing factor, around 5% of total.[ξ] And from your references, the US has substantially more obeses and overweights per capita than the countries against which it is compared for health costs [ξ]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449869/