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Originally Posted by willravel
And how do you know that?
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On one level I just thought about it. Second, since I was not able to find any source documentation supporting the numbers you posted, I looked at some other sources to see how they handled measuring "health care" expenditures. I posted a link:
http://www.milbank.org/1998shcer/index.html#total
Third, cosmetic surgery isn't really the point. Countries will have a variety of reasons why per capita and % of GDP health care spending may be higher or lower than other nations. Again, all I am saying is to be careful of the conclusions drawn, for example a nation with a higher percentage of senior citizens will have that demographic issue to deal with, a nation like China may have millions of people who will simply die without any modern medical treatment if they get sick, or the biggest factor may be lifestyle.
Fourth, when do we get to a point of saying how can the US be spending more as a % of GDP on everything? If I simply looked at headlines, I would think we spend more on health care as a % of GDP, more on defense as a % of GDP, more on education as a % GDP, more on food as a % of GDP, more on oil as a % of GDP, more on prisons, etc, etc, etc, than every other nation on the planet. If we are inefficient at some things, I can accept that, but we can't be more inefficient at everything. So the people who continually bash the US, our systems, our way of life, have a credibility problem.