Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)
by yitosda on Saturday July 06, 2019 @01:08PM
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Your citations seem roughly in line with what I said and expected: Americans pay double overall, with a similar dollar amount of public healthcare.
Proportionately speaking, that means Americans are not taxed the same (higher incomes). Interestingly, based on what I'm seeing re: incomes, the /total/ healthcare expenditure is, as a proportion of income, the same between the US and western Europe.
Overall this seems quite unsurprising: healthcare is expensive, the US pays more and the government spreads it around less. Worth noting that health and lifestyle in the US is also "worse" (more cultural than healthcare related).
Each and every report of US healthcare costs and funding. I'll just grab from the wikipedia article [0] for now.
> Public spending accounts for between 45% and 56.1% of U.S. health care spending.
And one of the pretty handy graphs [1]
Worth noting that this is with a lot of people unable to afford treatment.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_finance_in_the_Uni...
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/OE...
Edit: Has to be coupled with public spending in other nations to be complete. There is another article related to the graph [2] with another easy to understand graph [3]
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/OE...