ninety9:

josephweisenthal:

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johncarney:

“…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all developed nations. We spend more on medical care that any other nation, and get less than 41 of them. These figures are pretty clear.”

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Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives

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This is the clearest example I’ve seen of the longevity bias. Health care should not be judged by life expectancy alone.

Um, easy enough. Pick a basket of metrics that you think we should measure it by: the only one we lead on is spending per capita, so it doesn’t really matter how you weight them.

Check out recovery rates for injuries. Check out surival rates for people with cancer. Those are two that I know of.

We could do this all day - the point being the gap in per capita spend is NEVER matched by a gap in performance. We are at best 5-15% better in some categories, but our spending is 30% or more higher than all the countries we narrowly outpace.

I think you’re forgetting that we have the best health care system in the world, Nic. And also 9/11.

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   I think you’re forgetting that we have the best health care system in the world, Nic. And also 9/11.

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    We could do this all day - the point being the gap in per capita spend is NEVER matched by a gap in performance. We are...

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    Check out recovery rates for injuries. Check out surival rates for people with cancer. Those are two that I know of.

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