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 …
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2/ Even though the UK consistently outranks the US in quality of healthcare. E.g. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/fund-report/2014/jun/1755_davis_mirror_mirror_2014.pdf …
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3/ Given that the US spend $3.2 TRILLION dollars a year https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/highlights.pdf …
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4/ It appears there is likely a way to save $1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR (!!!) and have better health care. We need to get serious.
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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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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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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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