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One of America's greatest paradoxes. By far largest per capita health expenditure in the World but not the best healthcare.
by lobocinza 4y ago
One of America's greatest paradoxes. By far largest per capita health expenditure in the World but not the best healthcare.
- smegsicle 4y agoby 'not the best healthcare' do you just mean that it's not the most efficient and affordable, or are you claiming that another country has better expensive healthcare?
- lobocinza 4y agoI think it was my choice of words. By healthcare I mean the populations's effective health care which is what matters and not just the quality of the services offered. US ranks 46th on the life expectancy. Not saying that's a perfect metric but's a strong signal. https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ - Cost-plus contracts disincentive cost-benefit value delivery. - Costly healthcare disincentive use of health services. It's a system that combines the worse of public and private healthcare systems.
- smegsicle 4y agodoesn't seem like much of a paradox for the best and most expensive healthcare in the world to also not be very efficient otherwise