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US population is 300M, whereas Israel/Switzerland/Netherlands population is about 10M.
by raincom 2y ago
US population is 300M, whereas Israel/Switzerland/Netherlands population is about 10M.
- atombender 2y agoYou would expect healthcare cost to scale pretty linearly with population size, I think? Number of doctors, hospitals, drug prescriptions etc. are entirely population-driven. Medications also don't cost more or less based on population size. Although in a single-player market monopoly, I suspect a larger country should have greater cost negotiation power, so this should actually benefit a larger country like the U.S. A greater factor than population size may be demographics. Countries with older and less healthy citizens would have a larger cost burden. A poorly designed government structure could also disadvantage a large country like the U.S. This has been observed in the U.K., where successive Conservative governments have centralized the healthcare system over the last two decades, reducing efficiency and increasing cost. Not sure about Switzerland, which is also a federation of states (cantons).