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Price to income ratios are lower than / on par with most developed countries, and were not much higher than historic values until 2020, when the US executive tr
by sershe 3y ago
Price to income ratios are lower than / on par with most developed countries, and were not much higher than historic values until 2020, when the US executive tried to out-Europe Europe.
Healthcare, maybe. Although, breaking down US live expectancy by demographic or even just by states and comparing with the corresponding European breakdown shows that most of the worse outcomes in the US are not due to healthcare.
- mixdup 3y agoI think another way of looking at it is, we know how much we're wasting in healthcare. How much more effective could the economy be if we actually wrung out some efficiencies and took the profit out of keeping people alive I would be curious how much the productivity increase from people being less sick, and the increase in personal spending and investment would offset the profits of leaches like private insurance companies