The U.S. Has the Most Expensive Healthcare System in the World

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For many years now, the American healthcare system has been flawed. As our chart illustrates, U.S. health spending per capita (including public and private spending) is higher than it is anywhere else in the world, and yet, the country lags behind other nations in several aspects such as life expectancy and health insurance coverage.


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Anonymous
Anonymous

I suspect the United States also has the highest total healthcare consumption as well.

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable

Similar to Education, with same poor results.

Correlation ??? If so, guess the cause.

However, I do believe much behind the Gov’t involvement was done with Good Intentions. But, the appetite always increases.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

While it wouldn’t surprise me if we pay the most for the least, I’m skeptical that these are necessarily apples-to-apples comparisons. Here doctors incur big costs for medical school and then are often highly paid as a result. If other countries subsidize that education with higher tax rates, they may not attribute the cost to healthcare but to education.

TampaRed
TampaRed

there aren’t that many docs-

Jimmy Torpedo
Jimmy Torpedo

Canada is not on the list because they have a death care system. If you break a leg it’s okay, if you actually have something serious? It costs you your life.
They will give you just enough morphine to ease you into a painless death.

bryan
bryan

The education of doctors is heavily subsidized in the U.S. The tuition students pay is a fraction of the actual cost to educate them enough to be a doctor.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Why do doctors seem to have such huge amounts of debt by the time they become doctors then?

Who subsidizes them and how?

General
General

The US healthcare system is so expensive because of all the skims. Just two examples would be Epipen and colchicine.

Waco Tom
Waco Tom

There is a vast difference between cost and effectiveness. Besides how do you compute cost when you ignore earnings?

The UK’s healthcare system is god awful as is Sweden’s or Canada’s. The only first rate systems are Japan’s and Germany’s. But they don’t allow ambulance chasers nor does the government interfere as much as they do here.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Evidence that its god-awful?

overthecliff
overthecliff

Medical technology and drugs developed in USA are patented and and protected by the government. Political protection racket permits medical anti-trust activity and predatory pricing. Actual laws forbidding a bidding process for drugs by government agencies. Forcing taxpayers to subsidize crazy queer research,therapy and surgeries,just to name a few. Medical Mafia is controlling the system.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

50% of every healthcare dollar passes through the hands of the government. That’s all you need to know about why things are so expensive. It is the same with EVERY sector of the market they have their grubby, inefficient, and fraud-ridden hands in.

AC
AC

Government annual expenditure on health care is about $1.6 trillion in the US. Just over $5000 per capita.

We *should* be able to duplicate something approximating the Swedish system (which I know nothing about), just with government spending on health care alone.

Or we could save some cash, and go for an American version of Britain’s NHS.

No system can work with open borders, so that really needs to be addressed first – but I can’t imagine a good reason to waste an additional $1.6 trillion on health insurance corporation executive compensation packages, but I’m not making those decisions.

Also, the new comment verification thing sucks. You need to allow javascript from both google.com and gstatic.com, and enable cookies to get the POS to work, if anybody else couldn’t comment with this crap in place – sometimes. What a piece of shit.

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