Another "U.S. Health Outcomes Are Awful" Measurement

Avoidable and preventable.

Yet again in “telling us what we already know”: the U.S. suffers from an excess of avoidable and preventable deaths.

Not only that, instead of improving (like the rest of the world), we got worse:

Between 2009 and 2019, the “average” EU and OECD countries demonstrated generally declining rates of avoidable and preventable deaths – that is, deaths from such things as external causes, drugs and alcohol, and treatable or preventable infections. The United States, driven primarily by gun violence and overdose deaths, worsened. Then, of course, nearly all countries and states suffered excess deaths due to COVID-19.

Naturally, any report comparing U.S. health outcomes to the rest of the world is not complete without a measure of per-capital healthcare expenditures:

Exceptional work, U.S., as usual.