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Originally Posted by Table 5
And yet still much cheaper than what you get down south. The United States spends 17.7% of its GDP on Health care, which is the highest in the world (and 6% more than the 2nd country, the Netherlands, at 11.9. We're at 11.2).
I'm sure there are ways to make it more efficient, but Health Care in general is never going to be a cheap proposition.
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There's really no comparison here since the US (at the time these stats came out) only covered about half of that expense federally. You can't account for rich pople in the richest country buying their own "health care". I'm not sure now, but I know in the past Canada had the fewest doctors and nurses per capita compared to other nations. That tells me there's a lot of administration here.
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A lot of the inefficiencies have come form decades of cuts.
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Very good point.