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Re:Identifying Sources of Cost Disease by taneq on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:57AM (#14642684)
> A couple counter-examples: Singapore and developing countries like India and China have more market based healthcare systems than Western Europe and the US, and spend far less on healthcare as a percentage of GDP.

I think this is far more to do with the fact that they're developing countries than the economic structure of their healthcare systems.

Re:Identifying Sources of Cost Disease by Jabanga on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:12AM (#14642726)
I mention that possibility in the very next sentence and also point out that Singapore has a higher life expectancy than EU countries.