One twist in your pretzel (or 38, if you want to break it out using the OECD) is that you've essentially indicted every health system in the world for murder.
Point to the spot in that table where private practices began merging with hospital systems and tell me why things were better in the instant before that spot. I took the time to assemble and present the data, you can at least engage with it.
> Point to the spot in that table where private practices began merging with hospital systems and tell me why things were better in the instant before that spot.
That's a strawman. No one asserted they all merged at the same time in a way that this sort of 30,000 foot overview would illustrate, nor that the effects would be instantaneous.
> I took the time to assemble and present the data
I mean, as a bit of feedback on that work, it'd be substantially more useful if the site said whether or not it's at least inflation adjusted. Population adjustment would be handy, too.
I think you want take that up with Medicare; this is just an NHE XLS put up on a web page. I don't know how any of that would change your argument, because you didn't actually make an argument here.
One twist in your pretzel (or 38, if you want to break it out using the OECD) is that you've essentially indicted every health system in the world for murder.
The US is uniquely and aberrantly expensive amongst the OECD.
Yes! For reasons having very little to do with your argument!
https://nationalhealthspending.org/
Perhaps you could elaborate on what argument that link is supposed to support?
“We spend a lot” and “people make profit off denying and inflating cost of care which results in needless deaths” are not exclusive scenarios.
Point to the spot in that table where private practices began merging with hospital systems and tell me why things were better in the instant before that spot. I took the time to assemble and present the data, you can at least engage with it.
> Point to the spot in that table where private practices began merging with hospital systems and tell me why things were better in the instant before that spot.
That's a strawman. No one asserted they all merged at the same time in a way that this sort of 30,000 foot overview would illustrate, nor that the effects would be instantaneous.
> I took the time to assemble and present the data
I mean, as a bit of feedback on that work, it'd be substantially more useful if the site said whether or not it's at least inflation adjusted. Population adjustment would be handy, too.
I think you want take that up with Medicare; this is just an NHE XLS put up on a web page. I don't know how any of that would change your argument, because you didn't actually make an argument here.