ManusJustus said:
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. |
That actually still doesn't make economy of scale effect the government... since the government would still charge the same amount... the government never makes their own stuff in the UK. Also your deflecting from the real very obvious point that a UK country 7 times bigger would in fact cost MORE with no other differences when it comes to GDP period... because you know I'm right.
What a government offical makes vs a public one means absolutely nothing since we are talking about the diffrence between the UK, and the UK if it was many times bigger.
