Comment by WillPostForFood
17 days ago
Us does spend the money on healthcare, it is just very inefficient. US government spends much more per capita than any other country. 50% than the #2 country, Germany.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health...
But that's mostly people/companies spending on health care, not as much the government (because that'd be socialism, apparently)
I'm just talking about government spending. If you add private spending it is even more unbalanced. Just per capita government spending alone:
US $12k
Germany $8k
UK $6k
Medicaid + Medicare is 22% of all US federal spending. Defense is 13%.
I don't know where you're getting your numbers but according to OECD, the per capita spending in the US is 13k. That's public and private spending. I don't think your 12k per capita number is just public spending.
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