Does National Health Care Really Work?

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TheRealMafoo said:

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

 

you already spend 440 billion for medicare (2007 budget) and 208 billion for medicaid (2008 budget.... Federal contribution only). If you got your health care costs per person treated more in line with Canada/UK/etc you would already be set.

 

For 2008 year WHO Statistics

Canada spends 17.5% of total government expenditure

UK spends 16.2% of total government expenditure

US spends 21.8% of total government expenditure