> The US government already pays more per capita (that is, more for every single living person in the USA) for healthcare than any other nation on earth. The

> The US government already pays more per capita (that is, more for every single living person in the USA) for healthcare than any other nation on earth. The US also implicitly subsidizes all of the research and operations of the rest of the world. Over half the medical research in the entire world is directly funded by the US, and a significant portion of the rest is indirectly funded by sales in the US market. Biomedical and pharmaceutical companies in Europe make the lion's share of their revenues from the US, despite the US being half the population. You can't compare the US and European healthcare markets without accounting for the fact that they're deeply interconnected, and the biggest beneficiaries of that interconnectedness are, in fact, European patients.