Healthcare is such a large part of national expenditure that I think it is worth adjusting for it when comparing government expenditure shares of GDP. It is aro

Healthcare is such a large part of national expenditure that I think it is worth adjusting for it when comparing government expenditure shares of GDP. It is around 12% in Switzerland. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locations=CH-NL-DE-GB https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locat... Many countries organise healthcare largely through non-government health insurers, but those still get counted as part of government expenditure in both Netherlands (69%) and Germany (80%), not much less than the UK's (83%) with a National Health Service. Switzerland on 35% is a huge outlier here. In terms of administration the Swiss system seems not completely dissimilar to the German system in that coverage is mandatory and there are a range of non-profit providers to choose between. But the Swiss scheme is classified as private expenditure because its mandatory payments are made directly with income based subsidies rather than equivalent amounts being paid through the tax system. That one simple accounting change lowers the government share of GDP by 5.4%. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.GHED.CH.ZS?locations=CH-NL-GB-DE https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.GHED.CH.ZS?locat...