Healthcare cost/capita versus the health of a nation...

Hmmm...  I got to thinking after reading one of John Goodman's posts on the cost of Healthcare...
So....

Innovation costs money… We seem to have won that race and our cost/capita is a reflection of that reality. At the same time though, the innovations are immediately shared across the world. Now I know this is a rather generalized and seemingly unreasonable statement. If you take pharma out of the picture though, the CT machine used here is the same as the one used in Germany. The clinical practices and protocols innovated here get used in Australia.

Notwithstanding there are socio-economic differences to be taken into account. While we are criticized for our cost/capita being so much greater, relative to the health outcomes of other countries, there is never any rhetoric on the health in these other countries being bolstered by the spend in the US.

Just a thought…