The amount of excess death in the USA tracks well with the amount of government spending on healthcare — i.e., the more that the government spends on healthcare, the more that we die.
Here is a graph of life expectancy for the USA compared to similar nations:
To spend so much just to die early may be a sinister ploy, if the spending is not actually meant to promote health, but possibly even the opposite of health (as the graph depicts).
Here is another graph of life expectancy with named nations (USA=orange vertical line; Switzerland=purple):
Notice how far down the USA is compared to other OECD nations, and especially compared to Switzerland. Under the premise that government healthcare spending improves health, one might expect for Switzerland to spend much more than the USA.
But that isn’t the case:
The U.S. government spends approximately twice the share of GDP on healthcare as does Switzerland. The indication is that there is a kind of medical tyranny in the USA, where money is funneled into healthcare, but not for the purpose of promoting health.
Compared to other high income nations, the USA spends twice the share of GDP on healthcare, and has the lowest life expectancy and highest excess death:
The implication is that the U.S. government has not been an honest broker acting in good faith, but instead has been in collusion with private actors in “public-private partnerships” at the expense of public health.
All of the healthcare money is going somewhere, but it is not going somewhere where it benefits U.S. citizens. If it was, then there would not be 46 other nations who live longer than we do.
In the U.S. Constitution, the federal government was never given the option to become involved in healthcare. There needs to be a wall of separation between healthcare and government.
Excellent last paragraph.