The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

Re:The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new rep... by laurencerowe on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:41AM (#18853502)

Germany and the UK have very similar health outcomes [1] but the UK spends significantly less - 9.7% vs 11% GDP [2]. The UK probably should spend some more on healthcare but it's an open question whether that would be more effective at improving health outcomes vs spending the money on reducing poverty.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/chart/2017/mortality-amenab... (2014 figures)

[2] https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm (2014 figures)

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Re:The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new rep... by growlist on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:54AM (#18855485)

> The UK probably should spend some more on healthcare but it's an open question whether that would be more effective at improving health outcomes vs spending the money on reducing poverty.

There are other policy interventions that could also make a big difference to health e.g. making our urban environment friendlier for exercise by reducing traffic, reducing emissions, introducing dedicated separate cycle lanes, stricter punishment for speeding, and making our mental environment less hostile by e.g. stricter controls on advertising, control of body fetishism e.g. Love Island etc. in the media, limiting development/improving access to nature, etc.

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