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In terms of total expenditure per capita the picture is a little different, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-healthcare-expenditure-per-capita?tab=char

by dv_dt 3y ago

In terms of total expenditure per capita the picture is a little different, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-healthcare-expenditure-per-capita?tab=chart&country=CHE~DEU~FRA~GBR~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-healthcare-expendi... I wouldn’t dismiss a comparison vs percentage GDP, but it is a little different than absolute expenditure and abstracts the some aspects out differently. Absolute per capita expenditures if nothing else seems a little less volatile.

qwytw 3y ago
That chart only goes to 2019, though. Switzerland has been spending exactly as much as Germany since covid started: https://data.oecd.org/chart/79Yf https://data.oecd.org/chart/79Yf But I don't agree about comparing absolute spending. Of course there are caveats when using GDP but you really can't expect countries where salaries and other costs are much higher like Switzerland to not spend quite a bit more than poorer countries (and this doesn't really say much about the system itself). So we should at least adjust the absolute per capita spending by PPP.
- dv_dt 3y ago
  PPP is a fair consideration, but Covid I think threw a lot of gdp relative measures out of whack for 2020-2022. And of course as mentioned in other threads, many of the national healthcare systems have significant regulation of procedure and drug prices. Switzerland also iirc has enough public hospital services that it serves as an additional anchor to check private pricing.