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Re:It's the 21st century – why are we working so much? by jeremysmyth on Monday August 05, 2013 @05:28AM (#6159154)
the cost of healthcare per person in the US seems to be slightly higher than on average in the western world.

Try "considerably higher than on average in the rest of the world": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...

Re:It's the 21st century – why are we working so much? by claudius on Monday August 05, 2013 @06:47AM (#6159383)
It’s about twice as high as in the rest of western Europe (that Americans spend more on healthcare than, say, Senegalese, is not really a surprise), which I, in my orders-of-magnitude mindset, would classify as ‘slightly’. Especially if you look at the % of GDP spent on healthcare, the picture becomes much more varied – curiously with some other pacific countries (nearly) besting the US.