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It costs the UK £123.7b to run the NHS for a year: http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistic
by tonyhb 9y ago
It costs the UK £123.7b to run the NHS for a year: http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs
America spends more than 7 times that for private health insurance.
Something's wrong.
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- hippich 9y agoIt is not wrong, americans, because they dump so much money into private and federal insurance, only to get the most health care it is physically possible where in UK they are much more conservative with spending tons of money on anything possible. This is both good and bad. Bad for expenses. Good for medial innovation, since this industry attracts alot of funding to do more innovation.
- r00fus 9y agoIs that a fair comparison? The UK has a population of 65M, which is about 1/5 of the US @320M. The UK still probably gets a better bang for the quid - at least until the Tories' mismanagement of NHS comes home to roost.
- michaelchisari 9y agoHealth care spending per capita for 2015 was $4,003 for the UK and $9,451 in the USA. So while 7x is not accurate, 2.35x is nothing to cough at.
- hippich 9y agoIt doesn't mean medical care is more expensive or less efficient here, it is just that americans buy more of it. https://www.quora.com/What-makes-the-US-healthcare-system-so-expensive https://www.quora.com/What-makes-the-US-healthcare-system-so...