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Wow, I had to check your facts here, and I can’t believe it. The US federal healthcare spending is very close to the UK healthcare spending, but we cover WAY le
by californical 4y ago
Wow, I had to check your facts here, and I can’t believe it. The US federal healthcare spending is very close to the UK healthcare spending, but we cover WAY less for individuals.
The US federal govt spends >8% of GDP on healthcare, with the current system of all of our insurance and payments and everything that we have to pay in addition, totaling nearly 20% of GDP: https://www.crfb.org/papers/american-health-care-health-spending-and-federal-budget https://www.crfb.org/papers/american-health-care-health-spen...
The UK spent 9.6% of GDP on healthcare in that same year (2017) for their publicly-funded full healthcare system: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/howdoesukhealthcarespendingcomparewithothercountries/2019-08-29 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
- deburo 4y ago>but we cover WAY less for individuals. That has to be related to the fact that American drugs are sold to a lesser price abroad than at home, right? In Quebec, cancer treatment is free. Given that even late-stage cancer patients live much longer nowadays, and those treatments are probably expensive as heck, I wonder how we can afford it.