Interesting Links for 11-08-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Chronic Illness TikTok Through the Eyes of a Doctor

(tags:illness socialmedia healthcare )

2. This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer's Nerves

(tags:prostheses nerves )

3. Health spending in UK is a third less than Germany or Norway

(tags:healthcare money Europe UK OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[armiphlage]

3. Be sure to consider outcomes, not just health care expenditures. Canada spends $8,563 (Canadian dollars) per person on healthcare, while the US spends slightly twice that at $17,352 (Canadian dollars) (depending on whose numbers you use). Canadian males have a life expectancy seven years greater than males in the US, while Canadian females have a life expectancy five years greater.


https://www.cihi.ca/en/national-health-expenditure-trends-2022-snapshot

[hairyears]

On the one hand, your argument is an illustration of US exceptionalism: parasitic expenditures, market failure, and Soviet-Era inefficiency - you simply can't make any comparisons between the healthcare systems of advanced societies and the USA.

On the other hand, there's a hidden sting in the statistics: the UK is severely underspending and increasingly adopting American-style economic parasitism in healthcare.

So the comparative figures are even worse than they seem, when looking at the UK.



(Higher education, too; but that's another story).

[anna_wing]

The comment about outcomes applies to pretty much every area of the budget, (and not just for governments): education,the economy, foreign policy,development assistance, defence, the environment, transport policy, energy policy, etc etc etc.