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Health care spending and life expectancy outcomes

by Don Leonard
March 18, 2019
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If you add up both public and private health care spending in the US, it totals nearly $10k per person. 

Predictably, countries like India that don’t spend much on health care don’t get much either. But a trio of countries—Chile, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic—spend a small fraction of what we do per person, and yet they achieve the same levels of life expectancy as the United States. This is true even if you account for differences in local prices by comparing health care spending at purchasing power parity (PPP), as these figures do here. 

To put these data into better context, check out Part 3 of The Bargain.

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