US Healthcare Spending
Discussions center on the US spending more public and total money on healthcare per capita and as a percentage of GDP than most other countries, despite poorer health outcomes, with frequent citations to OECD, World Bank, and Wikipedia data.
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The US already spends more tax dollars per capita on healthcare than virtually any other country:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...
Reminder: the US already spends more public money on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, Finland, Canada and many others.http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PUBL.ZS?year_high...
This is the exact opposite of the truth. The US spends a disproportionately high amount on health care compared to other industrialized nations, and receives worse outcomes from that expenditure to boot. See https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-... for details.
That is public spending on healthcare:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Are you sure the US isn't just spending a lot on a private healthcare predatory system, not healthcare per se ?
Surprising to most, the US governments spend a higher percent of GDP on healthcare than most European countries[1]. Then we also have high private sector spending on healthcare. Its pretty crazy.[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
The American government spends more on public healthcare per capita than any other nation.https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
The US spends more tax money per capita on healthcare than most EU countries. And then it spends a bunch more privately.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
This is either intentional bad faith trolling or you are not aware of the per capita spending on healthcare in the US.https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
The US government pays a huge amount on healthcare. This is whether you do it by total; by GDP; per capita.https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...If you include private insurance:> As a percentage of GDP, the UK spen