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The US also spends more as a proportion of GDP than anywhere else, by a considerable margin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_exp
by PaulAJ 7y ago
The US also spends more as a proportion of GDP than anywhere else, by a considerable margin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Of course its not clear how much of this expenditure goes to various middlemen and how much actually gets spent on the patients. Even phrasing the question in a meaningful way is non-trivial, never mind getting a clear answer.
- andrepd 7y ago34% of all healthcare expenditure in the US is "administrative costs".