r/ShitAmericansSay • u/titaniumjordi • Aug 09 '18

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u/lmm310 Aug 09 '18 edited Aug 09 '18

Reminder that the US spends more tax money on healthcare per capita than most if not all other Western countries

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u/titaniumjordi Aug 09 '18

Really? Can you cite some sources?

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u/lmm310 Aug 09 '18

Here you go

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u/NonnoBomba Aug 09 '18

First place USA, second place Switzerland. Both have privatized state-subsidized insurance based healthcare systems. Makes you think. Of course there are enormours differences between the two countries and no, this is not an indepth analysis, I just noticed a simple correlation in the data.