Healthy life expectancy AT BIRTH is strongly negatively correlated with how much is spent on the last years of life

Ali asked for it, here it is. The last 10 years of life are not readily available but I found the last 12 months and the last 3 years healthcare expenditures for a few industrialized countries.

1️⃣ First observation: end-of-life (EOL) health spending is proportional to the overall average health spend. The direction of the relationship is unsurprising, but I was expecting, incorrectly, a nonlinear relationship. The ratio is about 8 times the average spend for the last 12 months, and about 5 times for the last 3 years (when annualized).

2️⃣ Second observation: more interesting, the younger the average age at death, the more a country spends to keep you alive in the last few years. It's like the opposite of getting more bang for the buck: you get more pain for the buck. The same holds true for healthy life expectancy: the more a country spends on your healthcare, the shorter your healthy lifespan. Two ouliers: (1) if you are looking for the US, it is hidden behind the r score for the three bottom plots, definitely getting a lot less for your buck; (2) Taiwan, thrift spender through and through, not spend as much as other industrialized countries, not getting anything either.