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Re:Stephen Hawking: I'm Worried about the Future of the NHS by new299 on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:53PM (#15050914)
I don't get it, looking at these per-capita numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

The NHS spending levels look pretty reasonable, and have been rising. What's missing here? Is there a better resource for per-capita spending?

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Re:Stephen Hawking: I'm Worried about the Future of the NHS by andy_ppp on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:48PM (#15051153)
“Total expenditure includes both public and private expenditures.” So those statistics are meaningless in this context right?
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Re:Stephen Hawking: I'm Worried about the Future of the NHS by new299 on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:37PM (#15051327)
Do you have a better reference for per-capita numbers?

Private healthcare spending in the UK is a fraction of public spending (because even if you have private insurance in the UK, most healthcare is still provided publicly (you still go to public-funded GP/emergency and only go private if referred)).

In addition to this, it's a relatively fixed fraction (~20%):

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/chart/uk-spending-on-public...

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