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Re:What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan? by Joeri on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:12PM (#21744876)
Wow, US gdp is “only” 20T, so at 6T almost a third of the economy would be healthcare. Checking your link it seems the warren campaign is aiming for 5T, which is still a quarter. Already a fifth of the US economy is healthcare and that is absurdly higher than every other country, which typically don’t go over 10% of gdp.
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Re:What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan? by atombender on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:51PM (#21745787)
In the UK, the NHS — which some people admittedly consider to be chronically underfunded — was about 7% of GDP [1] in 2018. Norway's is about 10.5% [2] (2016), and increasing by about 2% a year.

[1] https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R143.pdf#page=20

[2] https://www.ssb.no/nasjonalregnskap-og-konjunkturer/statisti...

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