sigh another depressing chart rule

Inflation helps it even more. Devaluation of the dollar makes number go up!

Contrary to popular myth, most partners claim to prefer small or average-sized GDPs. A GDP that's too large can actually be painful or downright prohibitive.

me when i want to run the country like an arcade machine

You mean the ~$200/hr contract cleaners at the nonprofit "rehab center" our 80something year old parents go to is going to profit? no way!

Now multiply that single contract worker doing cleaning to all aspects of building maintenance, medical devices... and unbelievably these are all for-profit entities acting as vendors are owned by the same entity that owns the nonprofit healthcare facility.

I'm not making this up, sadly.

Always look on the bright side of life!

https://youtu.be/jHPOzQzk9Qo

The UK used to have one of the best healthcare systems in the world. If we don't fix it soon I'd imagine our life expectancy is going to drop soon.

yea das why i put “radical” before “investment”

im sure someone smarter than me could explain a middle ground where investment is perfectly lovely but the way we do it? painandsuffering.jpeg

I mean... the scale starts at 78 and ends at 85. It's incredibly misrepresentative.

No we are not going to; and we are going to combat that.

I hear healthcare is great when you ignore black women.

Cuban has a higher life expectancy, and would be off the left side for cost. Turns out if you use your authoritarianism to force all the people who want to be doctors to go to college and become doctors, you get shittons of healthcare.

1 US year is 0.95 EU years just like how 1 woman dollar is 85 man cents

OUCH

never heard it that way before

Happy to see Japan towards the left and up.

Having spent a considerable amount of time there, it’s a multitude of things that are swaying the life expectancy. Yes healthcare there is significantly cheaper, but perhaps more importantly their diet is phenomenal (higher amounts of non-processed foods and *vegetables* [the town I lived in grew simple but quite delicious veggies]).

😩 日本に戻りたいなぁ

ngl i struggled to find japan at first glance it blends in and lools like a red data point 🤪 🙈

research indicates germany’s lagging here is due to an excess of cardiovascular related deaths; thus, lifestyle factors like smoking, drinking, and sedentary-oriented infrastructure are a major factor

https://www.monitor-versorgungsforschung.de/en/news/lebenserwartung-deutschland-in-westeuropa-unter-den-schlusslichtern/

High healthcare costs also add to childhood mortality as parents are less likely to bring their kids in for preventative care

No, the US really does spend this much per person on average. Expenses intended for medicine that end up in finance pockets count. You don't get a handicap in this game merely because your system is corrupt. There is already plenty that isn't being counted here, like how the costs of poor health externalize onto and make more expensive everything else in our society. If anything, the dot for the US in this chart isn't far afield enough.

By the way, this is also how the US spends more per person on education than any other country despite having some of the worst education outcomes. We just shovel money into tech and finance and get nothing back from it.

the rest of the money and funds that are calculated into charts like this should be identified as financing a private for-profit medical / health industry.

Lol, change the rules to make the numbers look better, eh?

Per capita spending should include the money wasted going to for profit health care, because that's money wasted that should have gone to health care, and is a contributor to that high number. Don't lie to yourself to make the metrics look better, solve the actual problem.

Japan and evil universe Japan; where healthcare is surprising a bit cheaper.

Japan and Switzerland? Or you mean Sweden?

maybe this is an unnecessary clarification, but Bernie Sanders’ team didn’t do this research. it’s an arrangement of existing data from various other institutions.

but yeah it can be hard to find “non politically motivated” sources in this area, mostly because we live in a world where if you say “i care about people’s health” that’s already a pretty radical statement unfortunately

OECD health expenditure per capita

OECD life expectancy at birth

because values typically cluster in a relatively narrow band for most populations, zooming in on an axis for life expectancy is incredibly acceptable, especially if your data is high quality and the axes are clearly labeled