Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week

Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by selectodude on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:46PM (#32569372)

It's laughable to call the US healthcare system bad, but I feel like that sort of treatment should be commonplace and universal for what we pay here. The UK has spent about 10 percent of GDP over the last ten years. The US spends 20 percent. It's going somewhere, but I don't think it's going towards care at quite the same rate as over healthcare systems. Even 15 percent of US GDP would be $3 trillion, or more than the entirety of UK total GDP.

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by pkaye on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:03PM (#32570686)

Its 16.77% of GDP for the US currently. Germany is at 11.70%. I think Germany is probably the most reasonably run health care system to compare against since Germany doesn't have the collapse of healthcare issues of UK or Canada we keep hearing about.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_...

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Re:Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costin... by erichocean on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:46PM (#32570411)

> Even 15 percent of US GDP would be $3 trillion, or more than the entirety of UK total GDP.

It's almost like the two countries might not be meaningfully comparable.

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