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By my understanding, that's the most on health care. This includes private insurance premiums, which is why the "we like private because it's cheaper" argument
by paledot 4y ago
By my understanding, that's the most on health care. This includes private insurance premiums, which is why the "we like private because it's cheaper" argument doesn't hold water.
- willcipriano 4y agoNope, the US government spends the most on socialized medicine. The "We need to raise taxes to have universal coverage" argument doesn't hold water. https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
- paledot 4y agoInteresting. In the summary, it's not clear what qualifies as "compulsory health insurance": > Health care is financed through a mix of financing arrangements including government spending and compulsory health insurance (“Government/compulsory”) Digging into the source report[0], we see the following footnote exclusive to the US: > All spending by private health insurance companies reported under compulsory health insurance. Category “Other” refers to financing by NGOs, employers, non-resident schemes and unknown schemes. [0]: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/7/4/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/7/4/inde...