This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-income countries.

Expenditure on US health system contributes about 18% to US GDP, almost double the average impact of the health sector across the world’s various countries. Yet, on all key health outcome measures, the US system is getting worse.

This is a perfect example of why GDP is a not a useful metric for measuring the state of the economy.