re: Americans spend more on health care and get less - report

Americans do spend more on healthcare, but they do not necessarily "get less".

Outcomes =/= products and services received

And the way infant mortality rates are measured across the globe varies fairly dramatically, even in developed countries.

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Americans spend more on health care and get less - report

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We spend more --- Far more.

With Obamacare, skyrocketing deductibles, and obliteration of private entrepreneurial models, we get less than we did 6-7yrs ago for that money.

Even with that impact, US healthcare remains superior to other countries. But Obama&Co certainly managed to close the gap considerably in a negative direction.

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The USA also has higher infant mortality rates.

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Red Herring.
Reporting is nowhere near uniform, or acuity adjusted.

E.g., There is no location in the world in which Jimmy Kimmel's kid would have anything approaching the care or outcome he received here. Irony.

The main point of this is that single payer systems do at least as good a job (probably better) of providing healthcare at significantly less cost.

BTW, the ACA reduced the acceleration of healthcare cost increases in the USA for a couple of years.

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Thanks Barry

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I know, right. He should have forced through true universal healthcare like most of the countries above us on the list have.

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The main point of this is that single payer systems do at least as good a job (probably better) of providing healthcare at significantly less cost.

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That's a very debatable proposition and not what your article actually says. Most healthcare economists worth their salt probably wouldn't agree with that statement, either.

Which is the better system: the one that raises average life expectancy from 75 to 78 or the one that raises average life expectancy from 81 to 82? It's not nearly as easy of a question to answer as you seem to think it is.

You and the poster below you clearly have zero knowledge of how macroeconomics work.

We in the US basically have a choice between two outcomes: socialized medicine that is somewhat cheaper but poorer in quality, or capitalized medicine that is more expensive but higher in quality. The single-payer systems in other Western countries that idiots like you love to hold up as an example are able to choose a third option not available to us: socialized medicine that is somewhat cheaper but still higher in quality because they are piggybacking off the US system. This option is not available to us because our capitalized system is the one floating everyone else’s boat. If we were to move to a single-payer socialized medical system, then guess what? The Western world would at that point effectively be a closed socialist economy, at least when it came to medicine. You may not know this, but that model has already been tried by a quaint little country called the USSR. They found it to be... less than optimal.

Educate yourself, rather than just trying to come across as educated.

Nobody is going to deny that liberals are ruining our healthcare system