https://assets.americashealthrankings.org/ahr_2025annual_comprehensivereport_final-web.pdf
Wir geben 13.818 US-Dollar pro Person für die Gesundheitsversorgung aus, etwa das 2,5-fache des OECD-Durchschnitts (5.477 US-Dollar).
Und doch liegt die Lebenserwartung in den USA bei 78,4 Jahren (OECD 81,1) und liegt damit auf Platz 30/38. Der Abstand zwischen dem OECD-Durchschnitt und den USA wächst seit 2003. Wir holen nicht auf, wir fallen weiter zurück.
Die Säuglingssterblichkeit beträgt 5,6 Todesfälle pro 1.000 Lebendgeburten (Rang 32/38).
Wir zahlen am meisten auf der Welt, nur um jünger und kränker zu sterben. Was ist der größte Einzeltreiber dieser massiven Diskrepanz?
Von -Azzi-
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Yeah no shit, we have profit seeking leeches in between people who need Healthcare and Healthcare providers. It’s literally the health insurance company’s job to pay less than than they take in.
Now show them ranked by obesity rates
Life expectancy is not a way to judge healthcare. The US life style is so unhealthy, it’s only because of our healthcare that our life expectancy is close to other developed countries.
Would love to see how all 50 states compare rather than being all lumped together. Huge variance amongst the states.
% of GDP is a more accurate for comparisons (and still has the same general result!)
Right, but its not a fair comparison, because they’re optimizing for health outcomes and we’re optimizing for corporate profits.
Because US health care systems is driven primarily for shareholder value + many Americans live as if health care is free.
God that is so sad and stupid. Decades of „healthcare“ companies, pharma, and the cheap whores in DC ruining the lives of the people they claim to be helping.
Edit: phrasing didn’t make sense before
No matter how much money you throw at health care for obese people, smokers, mostly sedentary people, the outcome can only improve so much.
Let me fix that title for you:
*“US* ***charges*** *more for lesser healthcare!“*
Do these „outcomes“ control for Americans‘ obesity?
The overall health status, physical functioning, and mental well being of the American population is so much worse than people know. These statistics just scratch the surface. I work in public health and in Medicaid, and it is an absolute crisis. The US population is literally critically ill with massive rates of obesity, chronic disease, substance use, and absolutely horrific eating patterns. The infant mortality figures are a direct result of this crisis occuring among women of child bearing age. Worse still, the health status of our youth is deteriorating, especially in mental health with very high rates of substance use and chronic stress. We are barreling toward a crisis that is literally a threat to national security. Just ask the military how incredibly unhealthy entering recruits are.
No fair! you didn’t compare private profits and CEO total compensation >:(
Measure the distance between where the US performs in health care outcomes and the cost of service.
That is the profit being made by the insurance companies that deny you health care services when you need them.
This is evidence that we need Medicare for All in the US. We are the only ‚developed‘ nation who does not provide adequate health care and we are the only developed nation with our system of insurance tied to our employment.
This system also makes it hard for a creative entrepreneur to make enough profit to go into business or to go self employed.
The system is rigged to keep hard working and creative people stuck in jobs working for rotten billionaires who take in the real profit.
Only country in the developed world where most of healthcare is essentially for-profit and medical malpractice can be in the tens of millions.
LOL, no.
The USA spend $13,818 on for profit insurance, for profit hospitals and for profit pharma.
Take the profits out, and the USA spends tree-fiddy per person on healthcare.
You can’t out treat a horrendous diet and lifestyle. At any cost.
This data is all terribly misleading.
1) USA people live much more dangerous lives than most other countries so there will be more deaths. Driving too fast, gun violence, gangs, etc.
2) USA has a lot of people that refuse medical treatmnent for religious reasons due to our religious freedom. Not fair to use this against the average for infant mortality.
3) USA has a massive drug problem no other country comes close to.
4) USA overmedicates people for anxiety and depression which costs billions and have terrible outcomes.
5) USA is way more obese than other developed countries.
The single biggest indicator of this cost to outcome differential is billing. A single-payer system like you see in most Social Health Care countries is Pennies on the dollar going to administrative services. In a hospital in the US you’re talking 25% or more going to administrative services like billing and collections. On top of that because you’re losing that much towards billing the private practices need to charge higher levels to cover that additional overhead since rarely are people looking at real dollars. You’re looking at percent margins. So in a for-profit system they are trying to make profit off of that additional 25% cost.
Most of this doesn’t break down what is health care. And most of it is administrative crap. Paperwork , etc…. And most healthcare providers are allowed to keep huge slush funds for whatever reason.
Curious if there is a “life expectancy based upon death by health issues”. I assume the U.S. has a higher rate of death by gun, death by transportation, and apparently, death by suicide rate than most developed countries