I cannot imagine why this might be. Isn't the USA the richest country on the planet?? You'd think spending all that money would get you something, right??
(health care spending per capita on the left, life expectancy on the right)
I cannot imagine why this might be. Isn't the USA the richest country on the planet?? You'd think spending all that money would get you something, right??
(health care spending per capita on the left, life expectancy on the right)
There’s an interesting element I initially overlooked. In the end, 80% of health care spending in Japan is by the government.
In Canada, which is ‘universal’ health care, only 70% of health care spending is by the government.
Japan leaves some of the bill up to people, but less overall than an under-funded universal system that leaves dental and medicine costs up to people, for example! Japan might have explicitly more privatized spending, but effectively, it has little compared to many universally socialized health systems.