The link between health spending and life expectancy: The US is an outlier
▻https://www.ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/the-link-between-health-spending-and-life-expectancy-the-us-is-an-out
One of the reasons for the underachievement of the US is the large inequality in health spending. The chart above showed that average per capita spending on health is exceptionally high, but the average does not tell you about how much each individual in the US receives. The US healthcare system is characterized by little access to care for some and very high expenditure on health by others.
The following graph shows this inequality. The top 5% of spenders accounts for almost half of all health care spending in the US.
