First of all, that's not what the headlines says. Second of all, reality isn't that the US spends 1.5 times the money. The reality is that the US government sp

First of all, that's not what the headlines says. Second of all, reality isn't that the US spends 1.5 times the money. The reality is that the US government spends 1.5 times the amount that these other governments spend. But somehow in the US people still need to buy private insurance. Even though all people in the other countries get universal healthcare for less public money than the US already spends on healthcare. It's meant to illustrate how cost inefficient the healthcare systems in the US is.