Here’s what Americans need to know about the UK’s health system
MsCYPRAHFeb 6, 2018, 10:43:15 AM
FULL STORY by James Ball: The GUARDIAN…..
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What’s maybe the most staggering fact is that the US government spends more money on healthcare than the UK government does, despite the latter managing to offer a comprehensive, single-payer health system for the price. The total is $4,860 per person – that’s more than the UK’s total health budget, and $1,500 a head more than the UK government spends.
The reason US healthcare costs so much is its immense complexity: hospitals charge insurers as much as they can, doctors are used to prescribing expensive tests and drugs, and the whole system is so complicated that huge swathes of funding go on administrating the whole mess.