Here is another great picture from the people at Vox. It shows the United States in the middle of OECD countries, when it comes to spending on social services, like healthcare, unemployment, and the like. Despite being in the middle, however, the US is better understood as an outlier, on two extremes of this spectrum. We very much outspend everybody on social spending for health care, while spending far less than other countries on other social services.
I would like to see us focus less of our social spending on healthcare services, for which we do not receive an adequate return on investment compared to other countries. But that’s just one man’s opinion.
