| Kasz216 said:
A) Did you read the exert I posted. Link again here. Any comparison of absolute GDP healthcare spending is absolutely moronic. |
I dont know of anyone here who doesnt think that culture pays a part in health. I do know, however, that the cultural differences in health between the United Kingdom and the United States does not account for threefold costs. Something like this should be simple to understand, just ask a doctor in the United Kingdom how much they make and ask a doctor in the United States how much they make, I'll go ahead and break it to you that its not a one to one ratio.
Economies of scale still works for the government because, even though they can set the price, they are still subject to market forces. A government hospital doesnt magically recieve things such as medical equipment, it either buys the goods from the market or produces those goods itself at market costs. Furthermore, as I mentioned before the payment of administration of government officials is incrediably lower than that of private businesses, the Security of State is one of the highest paid government administrators at $200,000 a year (only person who makes more is the president) and that hails in comparison to the tens of millions of dollars in salaries that an adminstrator in a private corporation can expect to make.
