The US spends 17.1% of of its GDP on healthcare. The 5 countries that are richer than the USA (GDP per capita) pay an average of 7.77%. Excluding Qatar, it's 9

The US spends 17.1% of of its GDP on healthcare. The 5 countries that are richer than the USA (GDP per capita) pay an average of 7.77%. Excluding Qatar, it's 9.03%. The top 10 richest countries (excluding the USA) spend an average of 8.03% of their GDP on healthcare, and I'm pretty sure at least a few of these have universal public health insurance. I really don't think it's a case of either the US being 'rich', or because the US is somehow subsidising the rest of the world. By any rational measure, you're simply getting hosed. These discussions are hilarious because I always hear the same domestic propaganda that's spread around by the pharmaceutical industry repeated verbatim, over and over again. You're paying more than DOUBLE compared to the 9 other richest countries in the world. You're getting gouged. If you can't even admit that maybe, possibly there's a problem here, it's unlikely anything is going to get solved. Data from here: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014&start=2014&view=bar&year_high_desc=false http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014&... And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... (using IMF GDP figures)