Random Critical Analysis has a lot of articles about healthcare spending, and this one convinced me that US healthcare spending isn’t particularly unusual given our standard of living, and it probably won’t be easy to lower it (if we even wanted to):
Several other posts cover various objections and show similar graphs using different data.
I think this was the first time I had encountered this argument. The parts that make it convincing are the frequent attempts to show that a particular measure wasn’t cherry picked and how the author breaks down data as much as possible instead of just showing the high level view and assuming it’s enough.
Random Critical Analysis has a lot of articles about healthcare spending, and this one convinced me that US healthcare spending isn’t particularly unusual given our standard of living, and it probably won’t be easy to lower it (if we even wanted to):
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2016/09/25/high-us-health-care-spending-is-quite-well-explained-by-its-high-material-standard-of-living/
Several other posts cover various objections and show similar graphs using different data.
I think this was the first time I had encountered this argument. The parts that make it convincing are the frequent attempts to show that a particular measure wasn’t cherry picked and how the author breaks down data as much as possible instead of just showing the high level view and assuming it’s enough.