WHO.int - Life Expectancy and Health Care
The World Health Organization maintains an extensive site that estimates all aspects of health and health related care in most countries. The core statistics can be found here.
We did a bit of research and found this: Although Canada spends only $2,900 per person per year on health care (vs. $5700/year/person in the U.S), and is socialized and sometimes looked down upon by politicians in the U.S., Canadians still have a higher life expectancy of 80.5 years compared to 77.5 in the U.S. Japanese have an even higher life expectancy 82.5 years (the highest in the world) if though Japan only spends $2,200 per person per year, half that of the U.S.
Even more interesting is that Jamaica which spends only $216 per person per year, and Cuba which spends only $251 per person per year, have life expectancies that are approximate the same as those who live in the U.S. The true factor in determining life expectancy and health may be the overall quality and way we live our lives (e.g. exercise, diet, sleep, stress), and not how much we spend on physicians and drugs.
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