Americans spend more money for healthcare. Much of it is quality of life and not maters of life-or-death.
Look at numbers of two procedures in America and compare with other countries with national health care... which limit who gets what.
Knee replacement
America: 7000/million population
Sweden: 2400/million population
Cardiac catheterizations
America: 5000/million population
France: 2500/million population
Sweden: 1102/million population
UK: 758/million populationWe don't have a difference in the rate or incidence of diseases... we do not limit the treatment of them.
We complain about the cost of medical care until our love ones need a new hip or cancer treatment.
