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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      The lobbying must be intense.

      The Sackler family, the shitbags most directly responsible for the opioid epidemic in the US, were handed a sweetheart settlement deal where they had to hand over a small percentage of their multi-billion dollar fortunes and in return they were SHIELDED FROM PROSECUTION on any related charges or civil suits.

      Luckily even our shitbag Supreme Court could see what utter scumfuck horseshit that was and tossed the deal out the window and into a garbage bin where it belonged.

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      Note that pretty much every other country than US in this list, the USD amount is how much the country pays per person in healthcare. Universal healthcare, baby.

      So in Finland my healthcare has cost me roughly $10/year.

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      Not to lump it in South Korea, but Koreans stay active and going out for many more years than other countries.

      While the healthcare is good, I’m sure the “not staying at home” is better.

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        And yet this, too, is driven by terrible political decisions that practically force Americans to drive even the shortest distances. As a European, your cities and towns are extremely aggressive towards pedestrians and cyclists.

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    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.

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        I am sorry, but is pointing out data inconsistencies makes you a BJP supporter automatically? Also, the pejorative you used is used for nationalistic Indian supporters who usually, tend NOT to say anything positive about China. I don’t fit your criterion.

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      Expenditure on health gives a measure of the final consumption of health goods and services (i.e. current health expenditure). This includes spending by all types of financing arrangements (such as government-based programmes, social insurance and out-of-pocket spending) on medical services and goods, population health and prevention programmes, as well as administration of the health system.

      OECD, Health at a Glance 2021

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        So if I pay $10k per year for insurance and the insurance company spends $5k on fixing me then the total is $15k?

        If so then doesn’t this paint ls USA in a worse light than it deserves since universally funded countries would only count $5k in this graph.

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      Further, is that number to include government healthcare funding, as well as out-of-pocket expense, in other words, money spent on behalf of the individual?

      I’d like some clarity as this chart on its face is pretty damning.

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    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)?

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    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.

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    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?