US healthcare costs 2X as much as other high-income countries despite worse access & outcomes

The United States spends almost twice as much on healthcare as other rich nations, largely because everything from drugs to devices to doctors' pay simply costs more, researchers said Tuesday.

The study by researchers at Harvard University and the London School of Economics disputes the long-held belief that US costs are high because patients see doctors too often or otherwise abuse the healthcare system.

"The reasons for these substantially higher costs have been misunderstood," said senior author Ashish Jha, professor of global health at the T.H. Harvard Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

"These data suggest that many of the policy efforts in the US have not been truly evidence-based."

The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) compared the US health system to 10 other high-income countries – Britain, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Researchers used data from 2013-2016 on about 100 metrics that underpin healthcare spending, and confirmed what experts have long known – that the United States "has substantially higher spending, worse population health outcomes, and worse access to care than other wealthy countries."

The reason? Prices are higher for nearly everything in the United States.

For example, administrative costs related to planning, regulating, and managing accounted for eight percent of total US healthcare costs, compared with a range of one to three percent for other countries.

Per capita spending for pharmaceuticals was also higher in the US – about $1,443 compared with a range of $466 to $939 in other nations.

Common brand-name medicines were often double the price seen in other nations.

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Doctors' pay was also much more, with the average salary for a general practice physician in the US at $218,173, compared to other countries where the range was $86,607-$154,126.

Fewer people in the United States are insured – 90 percent, compared to other countries which ranged from 99-100 percent.

But overall spending is far higher. The United States spent 17.8 percent of its gross domestic product in 2016 on healthcare.

Australia spent 9.6 percent of GDP on healthcare and Switzerland spent 12.4 percent.

Meanwhile, US life expectancy in the US was the lowest of all 11 countries in the study

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So you compared small, racially and culturally homogeneous countries with Amerimutt land? Gee, I can't imagine any important differences between these countries that might account for massive discrepancies here.

there's nothing about single-payer that would NOT work in the US. The system, in fact, is greatly scalable. And, the niggers already have their own version of single-payer called Medicaid (and old people, Medicare). It's just the lower working-class who pay high premiums for shit service… mostly white

Not in a country with more illegal immigrants than the population of half of the countries in Europe

Are you saying the solution is remove all the white people?

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Under single-payer illegals would not get to see a general practice doctor for free. Under the current system, if an illegal has an emergency they get care under Medicaid.

Tell me again what the difference would be?

What does the dimension "health care outcomes" consist of?

Because it is well known that socialized health care like NHS in the UK games life expectancy statistics by not including dead babies in the calculation. In fact they order doctors to stand down and not take care of dying babies, because only if a doctor attempts and fails to save a life, is it count "lost". Rest of it is counted as auto-abortion or a stillbirth, which they don't count in stats.

So I repeat: What does the dimension "health care outcomes" consist of? Because it better not be just life expectancy.

Liberal logic.

better poor and dead than a commie
so those with good health are always telling us here in the good old US of A,where nobody wants and the streets are paved with gold and manna falleth from the skies

Twice as much is an understatement.

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keep making excuses about why the US should stay as the only developed country without universal health care. the rest of us continue on living longer, healthier lives. (with more money in our pockets as well)

you almost made it

Fuck off with insurance. A simple national tax on items no one can live without like food, gas and the all important vodka and asprin could cover it.

So sick of the insurance scheme schyster bullshit…

other countries don't get taxed with health care that's 2x and a trillion dollars a year on military spending like 100 dollar toilet seats. and billion dollar jets to fly over the superbowl.

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USE THE BEST

Grow the fuck up nupol. There used to be actual discussions here, now it's a support group for pansy failures who are too dense to realize that they haven't even reached the state in life where Jews start to become a problem.

With a country full of cancerous fatasses, that tends to happen. It is not a systemic problem, rather a problem with the population.

Bleeding heart politicians will allow illegals on the system to virtue signal how progressive they are. You have no idea how fucked up and crazy the American government is.
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Yes. If we could move back to Europe, it would be ideal.

Take your mads.

Nobody's stopping you. And nobody would miss you.

Sorry but that's just laughable.

lel, you have humor
t. switzerland

I'm Swiss as well and I'm laughing my ass off at that study although for other reasons.

Hint: when Hollywood superstars, Silicon Valley billionaires and Gulf Sheikhs all flock to the exact same country for their and their families medical treatment, that country probably has the best health care.

I'm sure everyone can guess which country that is.

Good, that means only subhumans die because they cant pay

Now imagine if government would spend for it it would be economic suicide.
Even socialist paradise of California abandoned such idea

but who will pay your welfare?

All these retarded niggers guessing about what the real problem is in this thread. What does "administrative costs related to planning, regulating, and managing accounted for eight percent of total US healthcare costs, compared with a range of one to three percent for other countries" mean? I'd like a clarification of what that means

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It's almost like multiculturalism has a negative effect on the stability of tax funded services. ALMOST!

no, just the one where money talks. why does average joe have to get on a list to book an mri appointment, while a baseball player gets one the same day he's injured? exactly.

People in that country have no problems getting an appointment on short notice even if they aren't a rich baseball player.

So, nice theory of yours but no.

OP not going to address this?

Oh of course and also in Australia you get shit care unless your an August or something

all you have to do is search "us mri wait times" and see for yourself what the averages are as well as the terrible stories of people having to wait months. and here's something to consider.


makes you think. so yeah, why does a baseball player get an mri the same day he's injured when everyone else is waiting a minimum 2-4 weeks, sometimes months? it's so easy arguing with people on 8ch, because usually they just parrot things they read right here, rather than actually learn facts.

Really? When I was in the hospital for a severe trauma after I came out of a coma and shit I looked that info up. The US is so far ahead of others that any graph like this is a shit (((lie))).
Yup. (((Canada))) better than US, that's cute.
US's is more expensive, not denying that. But through that the US pays for Canada's and the UK's etc. system.
Do you think our wealth is being bled from us in one manner and health care isn't being used so nefariously?

The US isn't in a socialist race to the bottom. Wealthy productive people will continue living better in the US than anywhere else in the world.

yeah it's a great country for the 1%. trumps tax bill will save americans 2 trillion dollars and over 80% of it will go to those in the top 1%. congratulations on voting in a billionaire and thinking you would get anything better.

If you aren't a retard, you just go to Thailand or something to get your medical care for 10% of the cost and enjoy better medical care along with a complimentary loli. If you are white and you play by the system's rules then you are a fool and you deserve to get fucked.

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