Washington Post March 8, 2017
Is the money we’re spending on health care keeping us alive?
On a certain level, that’s the big test of any health-care system — and the United States is failing.
According to above chart, U.S. life expectancy continues to lag far behind other developed countries, despite spending way more on medical treatments aimed at keeping us alive.
The chart, courtesy of Oxford economist Max Roser, plots per-capita health-care spending against life expectancy for the world’s wealthiest countries over the past 40-plus years. Each country gets one line, which plots its trajectory on those measures over time.
Looking at the chart, two things become clear: As Roser notes, the big takeaway is that, in wealthy countries, more spending on health leads...
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