A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare
The blog Random Critical Analysis has made a good argument that Americans spend so much on healthcare simply because Americans spend so much on everything. Healthcare isn&#x27;t exceptional in this regard. If you replace the usual GDP per capita measure of income by a measure of actual individual consumption, the US lies right on the trend line, just with higher healthcare spending and higher overall consumption than everyone else.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomcriticalanalysis.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;why-everything-you-know-about-healthcare-is-wrong-in-one-million-charts-a-response-to-noah-smith&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomcriticalanalysis.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;why-everything...</a>