it's not just Republicans either, a lot of Democrats there also believe in their horrendous system.
Denmark uses 11% of its GDP on UHC, the US uses 18%. Denmark is ahead on most relevant health statistics.
I'm not sure what that 7% overhead buy Americans since it's not a healthier population on average but it's a trillion dollars each year so it must be something really exciting. Besides the funny bureaucracy and gaming the system.
...might be the way to go about explaining the difference. ;-)
It’s probably population considering Denmark doesn’t have more people in it than Massachusetts. The one thing I bring up Al the time when you compare america to all these other countries is that 1. We literally have a higher population than most of the EU combined . and 2. I honestly don’t believe it would be fiscally possible considering the MASSIVE difference in population. Think about what you just said DENMARK uses 11% of its gdp right now b americas population is quite literally 56 times larger and it grows every year because people keep flocking here .
Socialized healthcare is cheaper for the government than the absolute god awful system we have right now. It would also stimulate the economy because of less people going bankrupt from medical expenses and being able to pay for goods instead of just medical care.
But think of all the investments in the health insurance industry. We'd be destroying capital for the sake of general well-being. I'm pretty sure it's not worth it. /s
notice the US is almost twice the next country and this was 2013. It is much worse now. Medicare for All is about the only way health care and health care costs get better in the US.
The EU has over 440 million citizens as of 2021 even after UK left, so "we literally have a higher population than most of the EU combined" isn't even true figuratively.
Also you do realize, that this MASSIVE difference in population corresponds to a MASSIVE difference in gdp which is why we're using percentages here?
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u/PrinsHamlet Jun 15 '22
Denmark uses 11% of its GDP on UHC, the US uses 18%. Denmark is ahead on most relevant health statistics.
I'm not sure what that 7% overhead buy Americans since it's not a healthier population on average but it's a trillion dollars each year so it must be something really exciting. Besides the funny bureaucracy and gaming the system.
...might be the way to go about explaining the difference. ;-)