Health Care ROI
The U.S. spends way more money on health care per person than any other country. How do you think our infant mortality rate compares to other wealthy countries?
How accurate was your prediction?
In a recent infographic (below) we learned about the high cost of US health care spending. Does this information from today's chart surprise you?
What is the big story from this chart?
What do you think causes the US infant mortality rate to be so high (bad) relative to other OECD (rich) countries?
Is there anything a government can do to reduce infant mortality rates?
Is there anything about the US health care system that causes such abysmally bad infant mortality rates?
Why do you think Iceland has such better health care outcomes than the US?
Why doesn't the US adopt more of the health care policies of countries like Sweden, Norway, Korea, and Japan?
What questions do you have about this information?
Besides infant mortality rates, what would be some other ways to measure the return on investment of our health care dollars?
In the comments section, imagine the average American learned about this information. What do you think they would say?
