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by taneq 3281 days ago
> A couple counter-examples: Singapore and developing countries like India and China have more market based healthcare systems than Western Europe and the US, and spend far less on healthcare as a percentage of GDP.

I think this is far more to do with the fact that they're developing countries than the economic structure of their healthcare systems.

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I mention that possibility in the very next sentence and also point out that Singapore has a higher life expectancy than EU countries.