[lake99]

I don't think we can generalize from Wikipedia lists for complex issues when the lists contain very diverse countries. I have spent some time in Europe and in India. I have a couple of chronic conditions that requires daily medications. One of those conditions have generics available worldwide, the other one does not. My medication costed 5 times my montly European insurance premium in Europe. In India, insurance providers don't cover much beyond hospitalization and cancer. In India, the same non-generic medicine used to cost me about half of my European insurance cost, but I had to foot the bill myself. Now, there are generics of that available here, and I pay about one fifth of my European insurance premium for a month's worth of medication. I have to pay for doctors' visits off-pocket too, and the specialists I visit charge me about 3€ per visit. If I visit a local GP, they'd charge me about 1.5€ per visit. I pay for tests out-of-pocket too, but most of them cost in the range of single-euro-digit per test. Sorry about being vague, I don't want to give away too much about myself.

Looking at per capita healthcare costs in India would be pointless, as the vast majority of people go without proper healthcare.

[richmarr]

All well and good saying "you can't generalize" to dismiss criticism of US healthcare.

Here's a generalisation for you: The US has lower life expectancy than most of the 'developed' world and yet spends twice as much (OECD 2007).

See Meeker's USA Inc. slide 111 https://s3.amazonaws.com/kpcbweb/files/USA_Inc.pdf

[lake99]

No, the US healthcare is in serious trouble. My point was about a line of approach for the problem. In fact, India can give a few good pointers here, which you can see from how little I pay for my own, rather excellent, healthcare.

Indian healthcare has its own can of worms, but since we are not talking about that, I won't open it.