[OC] Does healthcare spending correlate with life expectancy? : Switzerland – صحيفة الصوت

A few notes on this. Very close here is … highly relative, but such a gap (of about 120%) is rarely considered small, I would say personally. Further, you are not looking at medical outcome, life expectancy being tied into many other metrics (for example Portugal has a medical outcome close to Switzerland, but due to their housing having neither insulation nor heating the death toll in elderly is high). Further things like eating habits in CH, heavy use of public transport and reduced negative externalities from behaviour less common here all add-up.

Having done some research into the economic efficiency of healthcare systems at uni, ours generally ranks 2nd worst in the world (although 4x better than the US). Of course no one is genuinely questioning the quality of the medical outcome for most people, just the cost-efficiency.

There is a LOT of research and econometrics data that strongly hints that a single-payer system like most Europeans countries have outperforms any alternative ceteris paribus in cost-per-outcome.

That being said, you can on a personal level or as a political view prefer the current Swiss system for other factors than efficiency. It is not wrong in any way, as not all is about efficiency.