How Does the U.S. Health-Care System Compare to Systems in Other Countries?

Click here to see this report by Robert L. Ohsfeldt and John E. Schneider. He are some of their graphics:

This first one shows that the U.S. is right on the trend line when how much a country spends on health care is a function of its income or GDP. It is a non-linear relationship. The r-squared is higher .926 than in a linear regression (.846).



This next one shows that cancer survival rates are higher in the U.S.



This next one shows how well the U.S. does on life expectancy once violent deaths are taken out (something doctors can't control).