Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) and life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries. The lines represent averages.
One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher health spending and below-average life expectancy.
@conradhackett
For the life of me, I do NOT understand why this isn’t (a) common knowledge and (b) sufficient reason for major overhaul.
I was thinking about health care earlier today when pondering the nature of public goods. One characteristic is that duplication leads to greater social cost (think “infrastructure”). Are hospitals (equipment, ER, beds) infrastructure? I think an argument could be made that they are. (Have not run numbers.)
Conrad Hackett 
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