I am for healthcare reform. We are all getting ripped off.
Also a bit of “you get what you pay for”.
In 2020, the U.S. spent 19% of its GDP on health consumption, whereas the next-highest comparable country (the United Kingdom) devoted 13% of its GDP to health spending.
In pounds per head, that’s £2,892 on healthcare for every person in the UK and £7,617 per person in the US.
I get a little annoyed by these comparisons. They are not comparing the same thing. Basically for the US this is the sale of anything with a health code, which is one of two items that inflate the US costs, the other is the number of people from outside the US that come here for care. For most of the rest of the world they use the national budget line item for health care.