[zdragnar]

Rural China has a per capita GDP 1/10th of the US adjusting for purchasing power; if their health care wasn't cheaper only the very richest could afford anything at all. Even the wealthy coastal areas are 1/3 of the US.

China and the US have the same life expectancy of 79 years, which is a very recent phenomenon due to the 2005-2018 changes I mentioned earlier. Obesity, lack of exercise and other cultural factors weigh down the US life expectancy compared to all other Western nations. China's use of abortion during the one child policy era also prevented a lot of people who would have had chronic medical conditions and disabilities from being born.

It is not yet true, however, that Americans are getting "less old", though it may soon depending on how China manages it's own growing obesity problem and tobacco use.

[Curosinono]

So your main argument is, that the US American health care system is good and has to be so expensive because people can afford to pay more?!

Feel free to us europe than or germany. We pay less and more people are better of than the US Americans.

US Americans pay 2.5 times more than the avg high income nation: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...

Were is the benefit of paying that much more if you are not getting older than others?

[zdragnar]

In a thread about China, I replied to a post about how American healthcare is bad.

My main argument, which is in my first comment, is that healthcare is a bad way to show the difference between China and the US, since they are actually have a lot of similarities, especially with access at the lower end of the income spectrum.

There's literally no reason to bring other countries into the conversation other than to say "US is bad", which does nothing to change the reality of healthcare access in China.