Does National Health Care Really Work?

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ManusJustus said:

TheRealMafoo said: 

I would also like to see how well it's funded. For example, the UK has a good healthcare system, but can you sustain the same level for the long haul, or are you bankrupting your country providing it?

The UK pays more than two times less for healthcare than America does.  If they increased their funding to match Americas, every Brit would have a personal nurse to wipe their a$$ for them.

Here's some quick and easy to interpret stats about world healthcare.

Healthcare expenditure per capita:

USA - $6,100                                                                                                                                                                               UK - $2,900

Healthcare expenditure percent of GDP:

USA - 15.4 %                                                                                                                                                                            UK - 8.1 %

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_exp_per_cap_cur_us-expenditure-per-capita-current-us

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_exp_tot_of_gdp-health-expenditure-total-of-gdp

Don't forget that the federal government in America already spends as much on healthcare as the UK does, and only covers a fraction of the poor.