A few highlights....
"It turns out that even though the US spends more, our population health indicators, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, are significantly lower than similar developed countries, such as the UK, France, Japan, and Germany. In fact, we rank lower than all but a handful of countries, such as the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Mexico."
"The curve in the above graph can be thought of as the amount of total health (measured by life expectancy) that a nation could expect to obtain from a given amount of expenditure on health. Points above the curve are highly efficient in that they are achieving higher levels of health than would be expected given their expenditures. As you can see, the US is high on expenditures and substantially below the curve, indicating a highly inefficient health production process. It's odd because it is also one of the few health "systems" with a large private sector presence. Remember that, at least in the US, the private sector is imagined always and everywhere to be more efficient than the public sector. I will leave it to you to ponder the meaning of this rather remarkable graph."
We can do better and I believe a better plan starts with Medicare for all.
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