In order is Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, German, Netherlands, UK, Canada, Belgium, France, US, Japan, Australia, with Norway so far ahead they have a different font color.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    US government spends more per capital on healthcare than all those nations with fancy universal healthcare.

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      twice as much, per capita, in fact. and the u.s. fails to cover everyone or everything that should be (like it is elsewhere at half the cost).

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        The US some how manages to spend more on public healthcare per person than countries with universal coverage, then spends even more that that on private healthcare on top.

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        That’s the feature of the system kinda like the homeless… Plebs need to fear the consequences of non compliance with the jail house rules.

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      A shame all that money goes into the pockets of millionaires.

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      A lot of which goes towards research. Turns out developing vaccines costs money.

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        Yes, it’s a shame all those pharmaceutical companies end up destitute cause they make no money from them.

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      Oh but you need to consider the overall spending on healthcare, not per-capita. That would be around 100-10000 times more than any other cointry. /s
      Also I hope that its clear that spending money on healthcare while not providing healthcare does not make it any better.

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        Also I hope that its clear that spending money on healthcare while not providing healthcare does not make it any better.

        Duh.