Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca...
by mminer237 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:34PM
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That's just false. The US federal government spends over $1,000,000,000,000 on healthcare per year. Only Social Security is a bigger expenditure. It's almost twice what it spends on the military. It's 8.5% of its humongous GDP. That's a larger percentage than most European countries. Germany's the only country I'm aware of where the government spends substantially more of the country's GDP on healthcare than the US.
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Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca...
by nucleardog on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:54PM
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It should be noted, however, for spending a much larger percentage of GDP they are still only providing coverage to about 1/5 of the population while most other countries you're discussing are covering 100% of the population.