English: Life Expectancy vs Health Care Spending for OECD countries in 2007. The data were downloaded from http://oecd.org and the image was built by Joe Meyer using the Python Imaging Library. See flagscatter.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This link provides some excellent research on latest trends and challenges in Healthcare in OECD countries. It’s a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ. Check it out!

ICTs and the Health Sector | OECD READ edition.

Personally, I am not a healthcare expert. BUT I am able to see symptoms from failed policy decisions in countries like the UK and the US.

As I have written many times on this blog, here are two predictions.

1. The UK’s NHS is beyond effective reform and will eventually be replaced by a new UK model of public healthcare, based on best practice in leading countries like Germany.
2. In the US, Obamacare care will ultimately be a bigger failure than the UK’s NHS; there will be two pivotal weaknesses – the cost of the bureaucracy and the inability to reach the seriously poor for whom it will be too complicated.

Let me turn this to an open question:

Why are OECD governments not following evidence based policy on healthcare, rather than ideology based policy?

Any thoughts?

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