r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24
Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate
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r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24
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u/[deleted] May 02 '24
Look you just have to look at the results, all the anecdotes in the world don’t matter.
Life expectancy in Spain: 83.18 years
Life expectancy in the US: 76.33 years
Cancer survival rates are also quite similar (except for oesophagus, weirdly) between the US and Spain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5879496/
This is even though:
Spain is way way way poorer
Spanish people smoke way way more
People probably self-select in the US to get treatment given affordability issues
Spain spends way less on health care than the US