UnspecificGravity comments on I ain't no Senator's son

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 81 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The US already spends more per-person than most states with socialized medical care. The difference is that in America that money goes to insurance companies and billionaires sitting at home while in socialized medical schemes it goes to doctors and nurses and for medications and facilities.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

The US already spends more per-person than most states with socialized medical care.

The US spends more than twice as much per capita on healthcare than every other nation on Earth. You don't have to water this down with "most".

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago*

I think merelly "spends more per-person" is nowhere strong enough to really illustrate how bad things are.

For example, the United States spends more than TWICE per-person in Healthcare than the United Kingdom.

In fact judging by this it spends almost twice as much as the European country which has a 69% higher GDP per-capita - Luxembourg.

And even with such much higher spending levels, based on this healthcare outcomes are actually worse.

Healthcare in the US is world-beating by a large marge in how spectacularly inneficient it is.

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