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> “People will generally pay anything to live a little longer.”

If that were true, you’d expect to see the rest of the OECD countries spending closer to US levels and getting even higher life expectancy gains than they already have, unless you assume they’ve maxed out what money can buy.

> “Combine that with the fact that when you have an unhealthy lifestyle money might buy you a bit of time, but its diminishing returns and all the money in the world wont buy the sort of full life a healthy lifestyle will.”

You haven’t done anything but assume there are lifestyle differences between the US and the rest of the OECD that causally produce lower life expectancy.

> “So with the diminishing returns on spending on health combined with the unhealthy lifestyle this is exactly the way I'd expect a chart to display when it is done using bad scientific practices like not normalizing the data for lifestyle and cultural choices.”

Earlier, you told me you hadn’t made any assumptions, but you’re assuming both different lifestyles and a causal relationship that you haven’t demonstrated either.

This chart is also what we’d expect to see if the US healthcare industry existed to extract revenue from Americans rather than to provide health outcomes.