[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote

*>>…Per capita the US spends $14,885 per capita on healthcare each year and
>> has a life expectancy of 79.6 years, Albania spends $414 per capita on
>> healthcare each year and has a life expectancy of 80 years. S**pike, you
>> certainly haven't had time to study those 3 lists that I posted, but I'd
>> really like it if you would and then tell me what solution you have that
>> would get the US out of such an absurd situation. …. John K Clark*
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> *> OK.  Let’s send our medical students to Albania, and do it their way.*
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*Let me see if I've got this straight, after you studied those 3 lists you
concluded that the way the USA handles healthcare is better than the way
any other country in the world does, even though it spends FAR FAR more on
it than any other country on planet earth and yet 47 countries have longer
life expectancy than the USA; and since we have such a wonderfully good
system we can't learn anything from those other countries and there is no
need for us to change anything about it except, as happened just 10 days
ago, to eliminate the one remaining subsidy that slightly helped Americans
pay their astronomically huge medical bills. *

*Do you really expect me to believe that? Sorry but that's not a hill I'm
willing to die on.*

*> **I rather suspect they don’t do much for sick people in Albania.*
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*It's not just Albania you need to dismiss with a wave of your hand, there
are 46 other countries that get FAR more out of their healthcare dollars** than
we do. And if the doctors in Albania don't do much then what little they do
must be damn good! Is it inconceivable to you that we might learn something
from the way foreigners do things? *

*John K Clark*




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> *Country*
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> *Life Expectancy (2025/26 Est.)*
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> *Health Spending per Capita (Nominal)*
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> *Efficiency Note*
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> *United States*
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> ~79.6 Years
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> ~$14,885
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> *The Baseline*
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> *Albania*
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> ~80.0 Years
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> *~$414*
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> Absolute lowest spender that beats the U.S.
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> *Costa Rica*
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> ~81.2 Years
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> *~$979*
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> Most famous "efficiency leader" (OECD member).
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> *Panama*
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> ~80.0 Years
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> ~$1,472
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> High efficiency in Central America.
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> *Chile*
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> ~81.5 Years
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> ~$1,547
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> Highest life expectancy in South America.
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