[AndrewM]

Originally Posted by fishnguy

From Wikipedia, but nonetheless:



The United States spends much more money on healthcare than Canada, on both a per-capita basis and as a percentage of GDP. In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on healthcare in that year; Canada spent 10.0%. In 2006, 70% of healthcare spending in Canada was financed by government, versus 46% in the United States. Total government spending per capita in the U.S. on healthcare was 23% higher than Canadian government spending, and U.S. government expenditure on healthcare was just under 83% of total Canadian spending (public and private) though these statistics don't take into account population differences.

Keep in mind that these numbers do not take private spending in the US into account. Some of you guys don’t exactly know what they are taking about, or so it seems.

True until you dig a bit deeper into the numbers. They spend more because there GDP is more.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blog...-care-spending