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For those who are interested, the population of those countries combined is roughly the same as the US: 331,137,369 compared to 339,996,563 for the US.
I came here to ask this; an argument commonly made by proponents of the US system is that the population sizes are different.
These stats are easy to find. The US spends a much higher percentage of its GDP on health care (16.6%) than anyone else. The difference is bigger than the entire US military budget. If the US cut its health care spending to the level of France (12.1%) or Germany (12.7%), it could more than double its military spending.
It terms of actual resources, the difference is even bigger, as US-Americans work much more than Europeans. I'm not sure what for.
ETA: At the same time, the US has a younger population, which should not really need as much care.
You mean to tell me we can have better healthcare and more guns, and save money doing it?
Are you running for president?
Actually proposing that would be political suicide.
Only in a backward country like the US it would.
Plenty of Americans are against their best interests.
Which shouldn't go ignored.
But the cost of the US Healthcare generally shouldn't be ignored either. And it seems to be by a good majority of our politicians.
IMHO, our population should give us MORE leverage to get cost reductions but it's just not going to happen. We need a severe overhaul of our healthcare system and the people who benefit from our current system have too much power and influence.
It should though because economy of scale works to make things cheaper, not more expensive. They're literally ignoring basic economics to make that argument.
Not always, and not that I disagree with your point either. The US healthcare system is so over bloated with administration that it’s likely experiencing diseconomies of scale instead
Well that's the issue. We don't have a single system. We have an industry. I also love how that link completely dodges the motivation to raise prices purely for profit. But even with that, we already know the legitimate cost problem is due to multiple middle man companies that provide no value and just take money. And the more care they deny, the more money they make. So it's a combination of problems. We have to pay them enough for them to employ people to find reasons to deny care.
Thanks for clearing that up. The headline is badly written and needs that information.