PERSPECTIVE
It seems to me that our continuing national failure to deal with the virus, beyond the willful and malevolent stupidity of our man in the WH, has highlighted what I consider a failure in overall health policy. Let me present you with some statistics taken from 2020 Edition of "The Pocket World in Figures" published by "The Economist":
1. Health spending as a % of GDP: USA-17.1, Greece-8.5.
2. Doctors per 1,000 pop.: USA-2.6, Greece-6.3.
3. Hospital beds per 1,000 pop.: USA-2.9, Greece-4.3.
4. Life expectancy in years: USA-80.4, Greece-82.4.
Now, given that the USA GDP is $19,485 billion and that of Greece is $203 billion and given the respective populations of 324.5 million versus 11.2 million, the USA spends on an average at least ten times more per capita than Greece. So, the question is: why are the results significantly lower?
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