I was wondering where the US was. Then I scrolled to the right.

Take this as a warning, UK.

Your NHS will get even fucking worse and cost three and a half times as much, and somehow a large portion of you stupid fucks are clamoring for US style private insurance rather than making the fucking Tories do their job.

Take this with a grain of salt. For example sweden spends much more on healthcare than spain but they achieve the same in life expectancy because swedish doctors get payed more and sweden is in the north where there are other problems to deal with(mental health) and people generally live shorter lives. The us is fucked up no matter how you look at it.

A life expectancy almost as high as China and we only had to spend 13 times the amount of money.

I knew it was bad in the US. I did not know it is THAT bad.

Lots of profits to protect. The lobbying must be intense. Total shitshow.

🇺🇸 #1!one!! Suck it, Cuba, with your nearly free healthcare and higher life expectancy!

Looking like the Japanese have it dialed in, eh?

Is this data old? India's life expectancy is now 70+ according to World Bank. Eithercase, I am impressed by China. They had a life expectancy of ~36 years in 1949 when PRC was established. They lagged behind both India and Pakistan for quite some time(cough Mao cough) but then took such a steep climb upwards.

But privatization makes everything cheaper and more efficient

American Exceptionalism

What're they doing in Costa Rica?

Cuba's life expectancy is too high and their expenditure too low to fit on the graph, very funny shit

Also USA is way higher than 12k a year, what was this from, 20 years ago? Last I saw was like 28k

I feel like if this was on Reddit there would be people commenting "Based USA".

To separate the effect of demographic differences from the expenditure, might help to divide by an age-weighted population, rather than simply per capita. Also, is this expenditure converted to US$ in MER or PPP (for services the latter makes more sense)?

Would the graph look slight more narrow if we accounted for median or average country income? Me spending 12k dollars a year in the us is very different than in Mexico, depending on where I get me income from.

As a South African.. damn..

Thailand on NHSO: Whatever, just take this paracetamol and shut up. NEXT.

Thailand on Social Security: $25 per month per person forever. Oh, it doesn't cover mental health or Risperidone or whatever. NEXT.

Thailand on Govt Officer (NOT Govt Employee) Healthcare: How may I be of assistance today milord?

This is not a fair comparison. The American medical system has to keep Americans alive while the Spanish medical system merely has to keep Spaniards alive. It is a medical miracle that Americans get to live above the age of 70 on average with their lifestyles.

If you want hookers and cocaine you join the USA health insurance corporations