If America needed to copy the socialist healthcare system of any country, which country should America copy?What country spends the least per capita, but has the shortest wait times and the longest life expectancy?Should America do socialist medicine, but categorically refuse to pay for the old and the obese?
>>17057781You want a single source payment system for private practices.You don’t want the government to own health care.
>>17057781If black people needed to copy the IQ of any race, which race should black people copy? If only they could figure out the correct race to copy, they could catch up with the civilized world.
>>17057781>spends the least per capita>shortest wait times >longest life expectancyThe spending vs life expectancy is easy to compare, though you might want to adjust for purchasing power.The data on the waiting might be harder to get.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancyhttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-healthcare-expenditure-per-capitaWe can see that life expectancy rarely go below 55 among observed countries.That's for places like Nigeria where tons of kids are still dying : back there, if you are still alive by 15, you're supposed to reach 63-64.Nigeria healthcare spending in 2000 was 75 $US per capita.What we are looking for is the least spent for the most years of life gained.If we go by this metric alone, then the bottom of the Third World is mogging the developped world, with barely 1 to 2 $US spent per additional year.Obviously, it costs more to keep alive one more year somebody who is 85 than someone who is 55.We got to assume here that countries where life expectancy isn't even reaching a certain age aren't doing things right, however cheap their healthcare is.I'll go with 75 years old as the minimum civilized age of death but it could be different.With this, the cheapest countries are China, Albania, Sri Lanka, South Korea and Peru.They are between 44 $US and 79 $US per additional year past 75 years old.In comparison, the US would be fouth most expensive place to grow old :Its citizens live up to 79,30 years old but at a cost per additional year of 1057 $US.Mexico is the first most expensive but that's less because of healthcare spending and more with the fact you are dead by 75,07 years.Your question was about "socialist medicine" though.I'm not sure what you mean by that.
>>17057781>step one: find a country whose healthcare system you prefer to the US>step two: apply that country's demographics to the USA>step three: wait and see what happens without further reforms
>>17057781actual socialist medicine?cubathey have exceptional doctors that are free for all cubans and they improvised a lot of very effective treatments while being sanctioned by mutts since the fall of the soviet union. they even send a lot of doctors to other countries in need. they got rekt pretty hard this year with the extended blockade and are lacking all basic supplies and electricity.
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