Does National Health Care Really Work?

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tombi123 said:

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

 

 To reduce land mass and increase efficiency, couldn't you do it state by state?

Medicaid is a disaster.  Also if you made it state by state you run the risk of having a "postcode" lottery.  Better hospitals in Ohio then Michigan for example.  (though that is the case now it's problematic when state run.)

Then again that is another issue with NHS isn't it... scotlands care isn't as good as Englands.