> You don't seem to understand purchasing power what so ever. I literally expressed it in terms of GDP. I know I can be verbose at times, but US spends around

> You don't seem to understand purchasing power what so ever. I literally expressed it in terms of GDP. I know I can be verbose at times, but US spends around 18.0% of GDP on health, UK 8.9%. Citations in previous comments. > Anyway I was born in Europe so I know all this far better than you. I also was born in Europe. I still live in Europe, just a different country of Europe than where I started. > Nothing about the NHS is free. They simply take it out of your paycheck. As are the federal taxes covering Medicare and Medicaid and the state level stuff. Which. Sums. To. More. Than. The. UK. Spends. Per. Person. (Aside: if you're going to insist it's "not free", back off about subsidised healthcare in the US: same applies). Even when I then convert that to % of GDP, US government spending on healthcare is about the same as UK government spending on healthcare, but the US population then also spends more, as a percentage of GDP, on additional private healthcare, than the UK spends on just government healthcare, totalling just over twice as much as a percent of GDP. The US spends around 18.0% of GDP on health, the UK 8.9%. The UK population, spends less than half as much of its economic output, lives two years longer.