Heide EstesDec 19, 2023

We don’t have national healthcare but the US government still pays 41% of total national health care costs and that’s more than what they UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Spain combined pay to provide universal health care to all citizens. Profit-based health care is broken.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/19/us-healthcare-costs-government-covers-41-percent-of-total/

U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined

American taxpayers footed the bill for about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year.

STAT
Show threadDavid G. Simmons
@hestes well how else are the execs at UnitedHealthCare and others supposed to pull down $40m/year, and don’t get me started on PBMs! It’s all a giant grift, at the expense of your health.
Dec 20, 2023 at 5:05pmWeb