Whats the point of high health index?

seems to me that high health index just makes you pay more pensions

does it increase welfare index enough to offset pensions ? seems that 130 health index would be enough to reach max welfare index possible

would make sense if high health index would allow you to increase retirement age

I run around 130. That is the sweet spot.

I run a very low index in most of my countries but I don't give a shit about the people. People are annoying anyway.

130 is the most you need to max out welfare index. I run 150 right now but im planning on bringing it down to 130.

High healthcare indexes reduce your death rate. Enabling your country's population to grow larger, and as a result, have more corporations.

As for what is the most "profitable", yes probably just above 130 healthcare index.

Signed President of DanNation on LU

Between 120 and 125 is enough for high population numbers.

Alright this is turning in a serious thread. So here are my 2 serious cents.

Health care is one of the most complicated things in the game. Everybody that has posted here so far is right. But if you are a new player it might be a bit confusing. I will try to clarify a few things.

For optimal welfare 130 is the best, period.

For optimal population growth under 60 million pop 120-125 is fine. BUT the larger the population the higher it needs to get. If you are aiming for optimal growth get enough health care that the average life expectancy in your country is 64.99999 years old. I ran an experiment for 5 weeks where I increased my pop to 190 million. I needed a health care of 165 just to keep the death rate on the lower side (I still lost 25K people per game month)

For optimal profit things get a lot more complicated. My main (Lets A on LU) used to run an average profit of 250B-300B per game month. Right n

Thank you Letsie, it has helped me alot.

You are welcome AK. If you have any more questions just let us know.

There is no HI that can be high enough. You must make it as high as possible. My nation, the United Kingdom of Balta on FB, has recently reached a health index of 292, and is steadily increasing. As a result, at 21M pop, I am now making net population gains.

I manage to pay for this by relying on civilian taxes and contributions, not my corporations. Corp taxes and profit payments are both 0%, and civilian salaries are extremely high. Thus, my civilians pay for massive amounts of the healthcare, education, etc, and also generate additional tax.

(this is as a free user)

I was not sure if you were just trolling or not so I took a look at your country. It turns out that you really have that country so I am guessing you are being serious.

Your own country is an example why such a high health care index is not a good and viable strategy.

You have just under 21million people.
24 corporations
3.62B positive income
around 170K military personel

Those are not impressive stats.

With 21 million people you should be able to easily hold 42 corporations and have a 15-20B profit per game month. Sure you have some extra people but what good will that do you if you cannot leverage those people in more income, a larger army or more corporations?

It really is just better to have fewer people and use them more efficiently.

Haha I tried to tell him. I think he is trying to break the 20 million population limit. And I guess he did. Take that Andy!

You are right, he does deserve credit for breaking the 20 million barrier.

Cheers and congratz dude!

Amazing.
With a health index close to 300, do you have negative death rates?

lmfao