I just spent two hours working on complete horseshit.

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29. Ireland jumped out to me too

Apparently they’ve increased spending a lot but it’s hard for me to figure out why. There is a mix of oublic and private insurance but it isn’t clear to mr how much if the increase is driven by private insurance vs the government trying to improve delivery.

From Wikipedia

In 2010 Ireland spent €2,862 per capita on health, compared to a European Union average of €2,172 per capita,[2] of this spending approximately 79% was government expenditure.[3] In 2017 spending was the seventh highest in the OECD: $5,500 per head.[4]

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The 2008 Health Consumer Powerhouse Euro Health Consumer Index report ranked Ireland's public healthcare system 11th out of 31 European countries.[26] This is an improvement on the 2007 report which ranked Ireland 16th out of 29 countries,[27] and a drastic improvement on the 2006 report, in which Ireland was ranked 26th out of 26 countries.[28]

The strange part is they got their improvement by 2008. In 2010 their costs were in line with ither OECD countries but by 2017 they almost doubled.

Seems like a failure we should understand but I don’t see any analysis on what happened.