America's Stunningly Overpriced Healthcare System In 2 Charts

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3. Notice that many countries are in a band right through the 8-12% region.

I think that most of these countries - Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, even Greece and Spain have some kind of nationalized health care. The US with it's antiquated and badly outdated extortionist system of health care remains an outlier.

And the x axis is GDP per capita which kind of normalizes population against GDP and collapses the axis.

on edit: The drug cost chart is an example of the extortion practiced by the health care industry. We pay double the cost for drugs in the US - why? To subsidize drugs around the world? I don't think so. I think it is because most other countries protect themselves against price gouging and highway thievery in their health care programs by REGULATION. Something that has been demonized as anti-business socialism by conservatives and industry in the US.