{"id":9477,"date":"2010-01-13T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2010-01-13T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:19:08","slug":"look-how-much-more-the-us-spends-on-health-care-than-anyplace-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9477","title":{"rendered":"Look how much more the US spends on Health Care than anyplace else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really love this graphic, from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ngm.com\/blog_central\/2009\/12\/the-cost-of-care.html\">National Geographic<\/a>. The left side of the chart is how much each country spends on health care; the right side shows the average life expectancy in each country. The thickness of the lines indicates how many doctor visits per year the average citizen gets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/health_care_spending_big.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/health_care_spending.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"health_care_spending\" width=\"500\" height=\"795\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/health_care_spending.png 500w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/health_care_spending-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just not getting good value for our money. We&#8217;re spending more than anyone, by a huge margin, but getting slightly below average results and relatively little access to doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really love this graphic, from National Geographic. The left side of the chart is how much each country spends on health care; the right side shows the average life expectancy in each country. The thickness of the lines indicates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}