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The US should return the favor and ask Britain to help us build a properly functioning healthcare system at half the price of our existing system (Britain spend
by adventured 5y ago
The US should return the favor and ask Britain to help us build a properly functioning healthcare system at half the price of our existing system (Britain spends sub $5,000 per capita on healthcare, the US spends closer to $11k-$12k per capita).
At $6,000 per capita, we could just about expand Medicaid to cover half of the population with our existing annual healthcare outlays. That would solve a huge number of problems for the US in healthcare.
- pc86 5y agoWhy are you talking about healthcare in a thread about AWS and intelligence agencies?
- adventured 5y agoIn every thread on HN with very many comments you'll find comments that tangent off from the core for one reason or another. It's extraordinarily common here. You've been here for nine years, so you already know that. The reason I wrote that specific comment, dear pc86, is because there was wide discussion in this thread about Britain not being able to do their own version of AWS in-nation or not being able to do it cost effectively. So it only makes sense we, the US, might consider returning the favor with Britain on something they do far better than the US does (cost effective healthcare). Especially given they're an exceptionally important economic partner to the US and Amazon getting that contract is valuable to a US company. Did you happen to see Zenst's comment? They mentioned "The Catcher in the Rye," the audacity. What does that have to do with datacenters or software?