1 year ago

Today we have our first Deep Dive feature. This video analysis digs into the data underpinning an article that we ranted about earlier in the week. Enjoy!

Reddit Rant:
https://rumble.com/v27z4zd-tri-212023-reddit-rant-us-healthcare-is-bad.-better-get-government-in-there.html

Article in question:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/us-still-has-the-worst-most-expensive-health-care-of-any-high-income-country/

Key claims made by the author regarding healthcare in 2020:

US Spends more on Healthcare
US spent 17.8% of GDP on health care
AVG spent 9.6% of GDP on health care

US Unfavorable Stats
US shortest life expectancy at birth
US highest rate of avoidable deaths
US highest rate of newborn deaths
US highest rate of maternal deaths
US highest rate of adults with chronic conditions
US highest rate of obesity
US highest rate of deaths from COVID-19
US 5.4 infant deaths / 1,000 live births (compared to OECD average of 4.1)
US 24 maternal deaths / 100,000 live births (2.5x higher than OECD average)
US 336 US avoidable deaths per 100,000 (compared to OECD average of 225)
US 30.4% adults with multiple chronic (compared to no OECD country with higher than 25%)
US obesity rate 2x higher than average of its peers

Author’s sources linked within the article:

Link to The Commonwealth Fund:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022

Link to CDC Report:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

Link to AP abortion ruling costs lives:
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-science-health-united-nations-c2de97f0e27ba424000b0f8aeed0dd39

Link to another TCF article:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2022/dec/us-maternal-health-divide-limited-services-worse-outcomes

My references:

# of abortions:
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/index.htm

% of maternal complications:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25560122/

Cross country comparisons for infant mortality:
https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Table-of-Content-Metadata-OECD-Health-Statistics-2022.pdf

Live births in 2021:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm

Leading causes of death 2020:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

Global R&D spending:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/309466/global-r-and-d-expenditure-for-pharmaceuticals/