1) It's also nurse costs, etc. The bulk of health care costs is labor. Again, I linked to RCTs showing that improving access to health care doesn't improve hea

1) It's also nurse costs, etc. The bulk of health care costs is labor. Again, I linked to RCTs showing that improving access to health care doesn't improve health and does increase costs/utilization. Do you have any evidence to the contrary? 2) The UK is 6% more expensive than the US. I don't know where to find the exact PPP factors, but you can back them out of GDP statistics by dividing GDP(PPP) per capita / GDP(nominal) per capita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... Where do people get the crazy idea that the US is more expensive than the EU? Is it just personal experience from their vacation to NYC?