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> The NHS is the 4th largest employer in the world, 1.3 million employees to provide healthcare to a nation of 67 million.

Yet taxpayer funding for health per head of population in the UK is lower than

France

Germany

Sweden

Switzerland

And get this -- THE USA

In 2009 - so before Obamacare came in, the US government spent $3,700 per person on healthcare. Not per person covered by medicare and military, per citizen.

The UK spent $2,700, and everyone was covered.



Spending is irrelevant, the success lies in outcomes. You brought the US up, and it’s a good example here: very high costs, poor outcomes.


Outcomes of a health system are tricky to measure compariatively, let alone put a dollar value on, which I guess is why people like them. Broadly though, UK, Germany, France, Sweden health systems tend to have the same ballpark. UK has always cost far less than those countries though.


And the coverage sucked. The care provided by the NHS is very poor while paying its employees very little and forcing to work with garbage equipment.


The care provided by the NHS is very poor while paying its employees very little and forcing to work with garbage equipment.

Doctors and administrators are very well paid. Even nurses are when you factor in the pension. The only genuinely underpaid staff in the NHS are its cleaners who are the REAL frontline against infectious diseases. Didn’t see them doing many Tiktok dances however, too busy with real work.




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