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Originally Posted by aceventura3
As I was witting the analogy, I started thinking the point would be missed.
O.k., I will not use an analogy but ask a question to illustrate a point.
If the US spends a higher percentage of GDP on health care, what are we spending a smaller percentage on?
Compared to some nations are we spending a smaller percentage on, oh lets say - food? Or, how about clothing? What logical conclusion can you draw from that? You can't draw any logical conclusion from making the connections between these variables. You have to dig deeper and really understand what is going on in each nation.
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The conclusion you can reach from that is that the US spends a larger proportion of their available money on healthcare. How hard can this be? If you want to know if something is cost-effective, you look at how much it costs, and the outcomes. In the US, for the costliest health care in the world you get something that is far, far from being the best health care in the world. Hence, other nations have much more cost effective systems.
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Here is a good one to chew on - we spend a smaller percentage of GDP on food but we are the most obese nation in the world. Does that mean our food is really, really, good.
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Holy crap, this kind of thing must be a joke, right? You can't really be comparing a matter of taste (food) with healthcare. In this case, the appropriate comparison would be that food production and distribution in the US is more efficient than in other nations.
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If life is prolonged based on being in a hospital bed, I would rather live a shorter life outside of the hospital. I would rather chase the young fillies!
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So you point is that it is a GOOD thing that Americans have poor healthcare? And that having lousy healthcare and dying younger is so much better that you'd be willing to pay more for it? Seriously? I mean, you don't want to just cut healthcare at all in order to die younger, you want to spend a ton more to die younger?
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No.
The conclusion reached by the World Health Organization is B.S.
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How so? You haven't addressed their conclusions in any way, other than to say that you'd rather die young...