One explanation why the US fares so poorly on the health outcomes vs expenditures graph: the magic bullets of medicine have mostly already been discovered. Now we pay a lot of $ for treatments that "do not work very well, and many do more harm than good."https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-medicine-overrated/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=8d5dc45f29-MR_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-8d5dc45f29-149621905 …
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In U.S. we administer cures and have completely failed on the prevention front, namely obesity/diabetes epidemic.
