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>because the richest country on Earth can't be bothered to provide for its citizens The USA spends more on healthcare per person than any other country Loca
by fsckboy 11mo ago
>because the richest country on Earth can't be bothered to provide for its citizens
The USA spends more on healthcare per person than any other country
Locations 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
USA 14,885 13,818 12,898 12,375 11,926
Switz. 9,963 9,301 9,089 8,392 7,621
Norway 9,393 8,909 8,533 7,890 7,221
Germany 9,365 8,503 8,652 8,103 7,364
Nederl. 8,436 7,615 7,517 7,317 6,516
Austria 8,401 7,697 7,700 7,465 6,295
Luxemb. 8,162 7,247 6,854 6,432 5,859
Sweden 7,871 7,364 6,977 6,617 6,069
Ireland 7,813 7,027 6,748 6,221 5,619
Belgium 7,750 7,178 6,906 6,554 6,097
Austral 7,469 7,015 6,907 6,546 5,819
France 7,354 6,848 6,701 6,395 5,874
Canada 7,301 7,046 6,876 6,906 6,209
Denmark 7,071 6,555 6,661 6,913 6,147
Iceland 6,770 6,134 5,956 5,556 5,010
UK 6,747 6,412 6,188 5,785 5,381
New Zea 6,700 6,479 6,480 5,213 4,571
Finland 6,655 6,276 5,765 5,395 4,967
Japan 5,790 5,619 5,984 5,454 4,855
Slovenia 5,527 4,556 4,353 3,894 3,756
Spain 5,346 4,927 4,744 4,405 3,996
Portugal 5,212 4,713 4,594 4,208 3,555
Italy 5,164 4,847 4,744 4,409 4,027
Czechia 5,014 4,570 4,394 4,462 4,098
Korea 4,797 4,586 4,634 4,106 3,618
Israel 4,352 3,840 3,682 3,358 3,015
Poland 4,284 3,560 3,066 2,752 2,510
Slovakia 4,021 3,280 3,126 2,922 2,449
Lithuani 3,870 3,306 3,242 3,146 3,092
Chile 3,749 3,396 3,113 2,848 2,489
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
- bdangubic 11mo agoexcept of course in USA 14,884 out of 14,885 went to … not care :)
- TkTech 11mo agoIs this supposed to be a rebuttal? It's inability to provide for its citizens while spending the most is proof that its model for health care is an utter, abject failure. That money is going to incredible private profits, not the citizens.
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- fsckboy 11mo agowas what I was responding to supposed to be a constructive suggestion? >It's inability to provide for its citizens provide some evidence, and also the counter evidence that shows that other countries don't leave people waiting for important procedures. I don't claim to have the answers, but I will claim that you and GP for sure don't, I don't even think you are in possession of any facts.
- brohee 11mo agoThat only because that spend is misattributed. Much of the money spent on US "healthcare" ends up wasted on admin in billings, collections and haggling with insurance co... Aka, not healthcare. I'd be very interested to see American numbers without the absolutely insane admin overhead...
- fsckboy 11mo agounfortunately, many of the people who are in favor of providing more financial resources to patients are also in favor of a more extensive regulatory framework, so the two ideas don't get balanced.
- user____name 11mo ago"Regulatory framework?" What are you talking about? Centralized information processing is faster and carries much less deadweight loss from duplicated admin and roundtrips. Having a system built around profit maximization isn't one that minimizes cost, as you have shown in your previous post.
- markus_zhang 11mo agoThe resources spent is more important. Not to prove that you are wrong because I don’t know the answer too, but we should compare actual care per $. Like service and medicine and such, not just the $ amount.