A quick google suggests that the UK spends just under 8% of GDP on healthcare
And the USA is currently spending about 15% of GDP on healthcare
I think it would be impossible to compare spending - the variations in what to include and what not to include would be huge.
As an example, the Australian government gives a tax rebate to those who take out a certain level of private health insurance - is that a health care cost, or a taxation variable - it's only a few billion a year, but we're a small country...
The govt spent 8.1 billion on pharmaceuticals, but that's only their spend, not the total community spend...
So many different ways to calculate.
For comparison, our figures are:
9.3% of GDP, or USD2700 per person, of which 68.4% is government funded (split roughly equally between federal and state governments)
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/hwe/hea01-02/hea01-02-c01.pdf
Cheers Russell C.
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