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Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by ethbr1 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:08PM (#42361903)
To be fair, there's an extremely strong correlation between GDP and absolute health care spending, regardless of underlying funding money.

And the US is near the top of the GDP rankings.

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Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by helsinkiandrew on Monday December 09, 2024 @06:32AM (#42365191)
GDP and health spending is correlated and forms a nice line (see diagram below), but US spending is nowhere near that line.

https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-international-comparis...

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