[anamax]

> The US is unfortunately one of the highest spenders on health care with the lowest outcome per dollar spent.

Umm, no. The outcomes are actually quite good considering the population. (No, you can't just look a lifespan.)

[sbmws]

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/8...

http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-968620000006000...

It's not just lifespan. Medication and procedure cost, access, technology use, availability, number of hospital beds and health care workers etc.

The US does however have the access to the most advanced technologies (probably where the large funds are going), I'll give you that but numerous other reports show poor outcomes for other general health indicators (teen pregnancy rates, obesity rates, suicide rates etc..)

[anamax]

> I'll give you that but numerous other reports show poor outcomes for other general health indicators (teen pregnancy rates, obesity rates, suicide rates etc..)

None of those things are affected much by health care. (Birth control is free in the US It's readily available at the local county hospital and other places.)

They do, however, affect health care spending, lifespan, etc.

[CarlSmotricz]

> No, you can't just look a lifespan.

I can't? Is it not the purpose of health care to keep people alive?

[sbmws]

Haha, my sentiments exactly. If you're dead your quality of life probably sucks.