> Having to cater for only 8 million people surely helps why is having fewer people more advantageous? to take that to the logical extreme, does a healthcare s

> Having to cater for only 8 million people surely helps why is having fewer people more advantageous? to take that to the logical extreme, does a healthcare system that only caters to ONE person make sense? will it be cheaper than a system that serves 50 million? if there are more patients, the fixed and overhead costs per person should go down, and the variable, healthcare costs per person remains the same but in fact everyone will benefit from risk pooling.