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Originally Posted by belsarius
Maybe you can help with a good answer to "The OECD data shows the US also has very low non-government spending, aren't they totally privatized?"
I know it probably has to do with Obamacare or something, but I struggle to put together a coherent argument.
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I'm not sure why it's shown as being so low in that dataset. Other OECD stuff I've seen puts the US at a little over 50% public funding (primarily through Medicare and Medicaid), while other countries remained similar in both. So I assume it's different criteria or some other oddity.