In the UK, the National Health Service pays doctors a flat fee per patient, so doctors have a powerful incentive not to provide treatment. On international mea

In the UK, the National Health Service pays doctors a flat fee per patient, so doctors have a powerful incentive not to provide treatment. On international measurements of how healthy the population is, the UK scores about as well as the US does (i.e., pretty mediocre for a First World country)--but the UK spends only 40% as much as the US does for health care.