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by yummyfajitas 3845 days ago
India: 4%.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS

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Not sure what that is supposed to demonstrate - it's hardly comparing like with like to compare the UK with the "free at the point of delivery" NHS available to everyone with a system where:

"This has led many households to incur Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) which can be defined as health expenditure that threats a household's capacity to maintain a basic standard of living.[2] As per a study, over 35% of poor Indian households incur CHE which reflects the detrimental state in which Indian health care system is at the moment"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_India

In fact, if anything, that perhaps reminds me of the pre-NHS UK healthcare system - which Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, clearly referenced in the title of his book "In Place of Fear".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan

Also interesting to note that, according to that first Wikipedia article, India appears to be considering a universal health care system.