radical for-profit “investment” in healthcare research, production, and administration makes outcomes worse, not better
not to be a raging commie but this upsets me
radical for-profit “investment” in healthcare research, production, and administration makes outcomes worse, not better
not to be a raging commie but this upsets me
I think that US figure is way too skewed for this chart
The US probably spends less that most first world countries on providing actual health care services to its citizens … 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.
The US doesn’t have health care … they have a private medical 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.
I don’t think that was the intent, more how much health care actually costs vs. how much just goes to pad people’s wallets.
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.