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> This means the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent
by JoBrad 3y ago
> This means the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care coverage to the whole of their population (335 million in total), which is comparable in size to the U.S. population of 331 million.
I’m not sure how the headline is misleading in any way.
- coryaf 3y agoReality: the US is spending 1.5 times what comparable countries are spending on healthcare This headline: the US is spending 6 times what comparable countries are spending on healthcare Yes - it's very misleading
- bee_rider 3y agoThat is not what the headline says.
- coryaf 3y agoThat is how it is reasonable to interpret the headline, given no other information
- bee_rider 3y agoI don’t know how to discuss this because I have no idea how you came to that conclusion. It seems like a totally straightforward headline to me. There’s no mention of per-capita, no mention of some sort of multiplier. It actually seems like quite a generous headline to me, given that it is talking about just the US government (when most of our healthcare system is privately paid).
- apexalpha 3y agoFirst of all, that's not what the headlines says. Second of all, reality isn't that the US spends 1.5 times the money. The reality is that the US government spends 1.5 times the amount that these other governments spend. But somehow in the US people still need to buy private insurance. Even though all people in the other countries get universal healthcare for less public money than the US already spends on healthcare. It's meant to illustrate how cost inefficient the healthcare systems in the US is.
- coryaf 3y agoThat is how it is reasonable to interpret the headline, given no other information