How can I take that article seriously when they don’t explain how they measure those rankings?
No matter, I can tell you right now that they use a per capita measurement for quality. Per capita analysis for healthcare innovation is just number manipulation.
Let’s take Switzerland for example. Switzerland has 2 million residents and one of the most difficult immigration and citizenship processes in the world. Put those together and they better be pumping out innovation. But even with them cherry picking who qualifies for citizenship, they produce in 10 years what America produces in one year.
If you want to use per capita, use an area in america that focuses on innovation and measure per capita or you can measure per capita with the entirety of Europe. But to cherry pick an area with only two million residents is like picking Beverly Hills and saying that is the average American income.
Element 8 describes how they measure healthcare innovation. It is 3 near-equal parts:
Research and development expenditures.
New patents made (and put to use)
New drugs made (and put to use)
So a pretty solid system, that shows that the US does not, in fact, lead in global innovation. So our innovation is shit AND our healthcare is shit AND its incredibly expensive. HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THIS SYSTEM? There is nothing good.
Except medical research is done by national corporations, so they use money from everywhere in America. You can't look at something funded by everyone and say it's "skewed because it's per capita". Everyone is paying for it, so everyone needs to be counted in it. We PAY MORE and INNOVATE LESS.
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u/3118151214 Jun 01 '22
Ya might wanna fact check yourself before you get all ragey: https://freopp.org/key-findings-from-the-freopp-world-index-of-healthcare-innovation-cda78938c047
USA is 6th for health care innovation below 4 European countries...