Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Costs in the U.S.
There are hundreds of metrics we could use to gauge how well the U.S. healthcare system performs. Let’s focus today on two of the biggest-picture measuring sticks — life expectancy and total amount paid per person for healthcare.
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Individual hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies all have their own ways to see how they are doing. Some metrics are high level, and some are way down in the weeds.
For this column, it’s all about country-level, policy-level metrics. The kinds of measuring sticks that we can use to compare things country-to-country.
