TheRealMafoo on 05 May 2009
I looked up some numbers, and the UK in 2009 will spend 111 billion on healthcare. There GDP is 1,439 billion.
So the cost will be 7.7% of GDP. It also equates to around $1,800 per person, for every person.
Due to the UK being a small land mass, with most of its people living in close proximity, they can be far more efficient then we can. If we were even close to them at $2,500 a person in expenses (good luck with that), that would be 750 billion a year in costs.
http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_health_care_budget_2009_1.html#ukgs302G0
