What I'm unclear on is whether "health spending", in this analysis, is defined as money paid to care providers such as hospitals and dentists, or money paid by citizens for healthcare. Because you've got insurers and PBMs taking profit.
The ratio of those two numbers is the efficiency of the American insurance model. How does it compare to the administration of a single-payer system such as the NHS?
Until I see some data indicating otherwise, I'm going to look at my £200pcm national insurance and my £9.90 prescriptions and my free ambulances, and Americans' $500pcm insurance and their unlimited prescription costs and their four-figure bills even when insured, and I'm going to continue to believe that Americans are punching themselves in the face.
What I'm unclear on is whether "health spending", in this analysis, is defined as money paid to care providers such as hospitals and dentists, or money paid by citizens for healthcare. Because you've got insurers and PBMs taking profit.
The ratio of those two numbers is the efficiency of the American insurance model. How does it compare to the administration of a single-payer system such as the NHS?
Until I see some data indicating otherwise, I'm going to look at my £200pcm national insurance and my £9.90 prescriptions and my free ambulances, and Americans' $500pcm insurance and their unlimited prescription costs and their four-figure bills even when insured, and I'm going to continue to believe that Americans are punching themselves in the face.