country debt ranking
Where does our country rank: Health Care, Taxes, Debt, etc?
I was just wondering, where does our country rank, and why? Quick example: the link below says we have the best trained physicians in the world, yet our health care is one of the worse. Likewise, our country is apparently the most indebted country in the world, owing almsot all the worlds debt. So, if thats the case, how is it that we (supposedly) rank No.1 for most reckless spending in the world. Where do you think we rank as far as healthcare? What do you think of our taxes, or the IRS?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_deb_ext-economy-debt-external
Hey, wow, thanks for the answer, I apperciate all the info and links. Haha, what u said in ur email is true, people will try to defend this and that and beat around the bush with opinions and comments that are based on nothing, but no matter how you swing it, and no matter what people say in defense of this country, its going down hill.
Here are the facts on health care. We are at the bottom of the developed world in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality. Yet we have far and away the highest cost for health care.
in the USA we pay nearly *twice* what Europeans pay for health care, and we have both higher infant mortality and lower life expectancy than most European countries. In the table below, im = infant mortality and L = life expectancy. See http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004393.html for infant mortality and life expectancy; see http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/33/38979719.pdf for costs.
United States — im= 6.4, L= 78.0, cost $7290, 16.0% of GDP
Canada ——— im= 4.6, L= 80.3, cost $3895, 10.1% of GDP
Austria ——– im= 4.5, L= 79.2, cost $3763, 10.1% of GDP
United Kingdom — im= 5.0, L= 78.7, cost $3895, 8.4% of GDP
Denmark —— im= 4.5, L= 78.0, cost $3362, 10.4% of GDP
Finland ——- im= 3.5, L= 78.7, cost $2840, 8.2% of GDP
France ——– im= 4.2, L= 79.9, cost $4763, 11.0% of GDP
Germany —— im= 4.1, L= 79.0, cost $3527, 10.4% of GDP
Greece ——– im= 5.3, L= 79.4, cost $2727, 9.6% of GDP
Italy ———– im= 5.7, L= 79.9, cost $2686, 8.7% of GDP
Norway ——- im= 3.6, L= 79.7, cost $4763, 8.9% of GDP
Spain ——— im= 4.3, L= 79.8, cost $2671, 8.5% of GDP
Sweden ——- im= 2.8, L= 80.6, cost $3323, 9.1% of GDP
Switzerland — im= 4.3, L= 80.6, cost $4417, 10.8% of GDP
USA has 36 days longer life expectancy than these two countries!
Ireland ——- im= 5.2, L= 77.9, cost $3424, 7.6% of GDP
Portugal —– im= 4.9, L= 77.9, cost $2150, 9.9% of GDP
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Thanks for the link to http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_deb_ext-economy-debt-external
We rank #1 in dollars of debt, but we also have the world’s largest economy. If you click on “Per capita” or “Per $ GDP” you’ll see we rank #14 in debt per capita, and # 52 in debt per $ GDP. Since that last measure is the most indicative, I’d say we don’t rank too badly in terms of debt.
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