[GenerWork]

Isn't one of the selling points of universal healthcare that it's overall cheaper in total cost than private insurance? If so, the UK should be celebrated for having such a low percentage of its GDP being spent on universal healthcare.

[s1artibartfast]

UK spends about 11% of GDP on healthcare This is comparable to France, Germany, and Switzerland, which spend ~12%, and less than the USA at 16% of GDP.

Things get a little more interesting when you take the overall GDP of each country into account:

Switzerland: 106K, ~$12K per capita

USA: 85k, ~$13.5k per capita

Germany $54K, $6.8k per capita

UK: $51k, $5.8k per capita

France: $47k, $5.8k per capita

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[mapt]

Why not reduce it to 1% and see what happens?

It is possible for this class of approach to be cheaper, but also for this particular implementation to be spending too little.

[Spooky23]

The issue is that the Britain is stagnating, so that percentage of GDP is growing slower than costs.