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Burnley123Explain to me how the US system costs twice as much but delivers worse outcomes than the US system?
I don't know about either assumption that you are making.
Are the outcomes better under NHS?
While you and some of our politicians may think so, I think there may be twisted statistics. While the UK may enjoy a higher life expectancy, it's questionable whether that has anything to do with health care systems. We in the US tend to live riskier lives, and we tend to not listen too well to health advice, regardless of where we get that advice. Even advice from our FDA gets treated with the same disregard as do our traffic laws.
Just look at how we differ: the UK lost about 700 brave souls during the recent Middle East wars, the US lost about 7,000. Adjusting for population differences, the UK enjoyed a 2 to 1 lower casualty rate. Looking at other human activities, the US routinely experiences about 35,000 auto related fatalities per year while the UK has about 1,800 a year. Adjusted for population differences, the UK enjoys a 7 to 1 advantage in auto fatalities. There are other differences between the UK and the US that would seem to affect life expectancy. I would think that immigration rates would. The US accepts about twice as many legal immigrants as the UK does, and probably an infinite times more illegal immigrants than the UK. Again adjusted for population differences.
And twice as much?
Our own government in the US tinkers with our health care so much we have no idea about what it actually costs :) Our general experience with government run things suggests that it will probably cost even more if we tried NHS here.
None of this means that I dislike the UK. I spent a year living there and seriously enjoyed it.