Originally Posted by woj

Actually, not quite, it's comparing life expectancy vs spending... life expectancy is obviously based on dozens of factors other than spending, so drawing conclusions about efficiency is almost pointless...

One such factor might be smoking / alcohol consumption rates, it's not really a health care issue, but more of a social problem, in some countries it's just more "cool" to smoke/drink...

for example Singapore has one of the lowest smoking/alcohol consumption rates in the world, leading to high life expectancy, which leads to "high efficiency"... while Russia has one of the highest, leading to low life expectancy, which leads to "low efficiency"...

so in those 2 examples, it tries to draw economic conclusions ("efficiency"), when main factor causing the differences may be social differences between those 2 countries...