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by 0xy 897 days ago
I'm using World Bank data (sourced from the World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure database) on a per capita basis. As you can see, UK spending is skyrocketing. The rate of increase between 2010 and 2019 is 2,000% higher than France's, as originally claimed.

I don't think your data source correctly accounts for inflation, making it essentially useless to see true costs.

As you know, France is a similar country with similar health concerns and similar hospital pressures.

Yet the UK lights taxpayer money on fire on NHS middle management salaries (care certainly isn't improving!) and France has no such problem.

Source:

- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?locat...

- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?locat...

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> As you can see, UK spending is skyrocketing. The rate of increase between 2010 and 2019 is 2,000% higher than France's, as originally claimed.

I'm still not seeing it, what are the actual digits you are you math-ing in order to get 2000%? Are you sure you aren't comparing two different time ranges?

Because putting both country-lines on on the same 2010-2019 graph doesn't show anything too shocking:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?start...