America's terrible health outcomes

For one of the richest nations on Earth, the US's health outcomes are terrible, even though it spends twice as much (as a percent of GDP) on health care as other wealthy countries.  American exceptionalism indeed.

Dysfunctional US health system

From Eric Topol

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

 

And what an outlier!  The US health system is extraordinarily toxic and dysfunctional.  It has nearly the worst life expectancy with by far the most expensive costs.