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throwaway2037 | on: Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

    > However Canadians have free healthcare
I don't like this use of "free". It is paid for by taxes. That is no where near free. It is extremely hard in a highly advanced economy to provide quality healthcare at less than 10% of GDP. That is a huge number for any wealthy country.

Also, Canadians are pretty fat. It looks like 65% are overweight, which includes obese. Ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1317268/overweight-obesi...

janalsncm | parent
Fair point, it isn’t “free” of course. But it is accessible to everyone. No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.

> It is extremely hard in a highly advanced economy to provide quality healthcare at less than 10% of GDP.

In the US we pay 17% of GDP towards healthcare and tons of people still can’t afford it.

defrost | root | parent | next
The general view of US healthcare is that not much of the money paid toward better health outcomes reaches the target.

A quote from another comment here is:

     Australia’s health system far outperforms the .. US healthcare system, which spends nearly twice as much per capita as Australia to deliver far worse outcomes — including Americans dying five years younger than us.
throwaway2037 | root | parent

    > No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.
Many highly developed countries have copays in their national health insurance programme.