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TFA: “India’s government spent just 1.4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product on health care in 2014, little changed as a proportion of the economy in
by zaroth 9y ago
TFA: “India’s government spent just 1.4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product on health care in 2014, little changed as a proportion of the economy in 20 years, according to the World Bank. China, by contrast, spent 3.1 percent of its G.D.P. on health care in 2014; the United States spent 8.3 percent in the same year.”
CMS.gov: “U.S. health care spending grew 4.3 percent in 2016, reaching $3.3 trillion or $10,348 per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.9 percent.”
World Bank puts total health care expenditure at 17.1% for the US in 2014 and 4.6% for India...
They must mean just US government spending, not counting private expenditure.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014&locations=US&start=1995&view=chart https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?end=2014...
- dragonwriter 9y agoCMS is reporting total US healthcare spending; TFA is discussing government healthcare spending; total (federal, state, and local) government spending was 45.2% of all health expenditures in the US [0], which applied to the 17.9% of GDP for total US healthcare expenditures gives 8.1% GDP public expenditures in 2016, very similar to the 8.3% TFA reports for 2014. EDIT: Ah, my post crossed your edit, which recognizes the issue, but: > They must mean just US government spending, not counting private expenditure. The part you quote from TFA explicitly says it is comparing government expenditures. [0] from the same CMS page you seem to be using: https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nhe-fact-sheet.html https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...