"Maybe try actually reading it though?" Your first sentence is "In the popular telling, there is a strong and reasonably constant relationship between health s

"Maybe try actually reading it though?" Your first sentence is "In the popular telling, there is a strong and reasonably constant relationship between health spending and life expectancy.". My comment was that I am not aware of this being the popular telling. But instead from what I can tell most people agree that the US doesn't deliver better results despite much higher spending. Otherwise I think you have dug up a good and useful amount of data although I think some of your conclusions are debatable. This is probably to be expected if you analyze such a complex system.