1/ Per capita health care spending in the US is twice what it is in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita …
Measures of "quality of healthcare" are tricky, and there's a tendency of researchers to class their personal political choices as "quality"
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True. But I'm having a hard time finding any rankings that put US over UK other than personal opinions
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If you're willing to wait 4 weeks to see a doctor, then it's great that it's free.
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Yeah, that seems to be the common thing I'm reading (including Canada). And fiddling the wait time surely bumps the cost....
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But 1.5 trillion?
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To some degree the US subsidises R&D for the rest of the world. And I certainly wouldn't deny that the system there is a mess.
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I flatly don't believe we get the same quality of health care as an American with decent insurance gets. But that's expensive.
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