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PPACA or AHCA?

Or Single Payer.

This page has been set up to compare USA for profit, personal insurance healthcare with alternatives.

25% of USA health spending goes on administration.

The NHS in UK spends 14%.

Six reasons why US healthcare is so expensive.- Cutler

Best estimates suggest that the NHS spends roughly £8 billion of its £100 billion budget on management and administration

Medicaid - what is it?

What is Medicare?

How many billing clerks would you think a 900 bed hospital needs?

Canada and other countries that have a single-payer system don’t require the USA level of staffing to administer healthcare.

World factbook infant mortality estimates per 1000 for 2016 - All with Universal "social" healthcare.

United Kingdom 4.30

European Union 4.00

Canada 4.60

Cuba 4.50

World factbook infant mortality estimates per 1000 for 2016 - With individual insurance paying healthcare.

USA 5.80

Comments were made on the above topic, and indeed some UK hospital trusts are (or were) performing 10% or more worse (but still below USA average) according to reports today (Sept 3rd).

Looking at specific interventions, Table 1 shows that the price of a normal delivery in the United States was estimated to be more than 50% higher than in France or Canada, while the price of a caesarean section was 30% higher than in France and more than 50% higher than in Canada. (OECD)

Similarly much negativity has been generated by the case of Charlie Gard. "USA healthcare would not have done that", trumpets Ohio Norm. "He was killed by social healthcare", he states. An American medic claimed to have possible treatments, but did not actually come over to assess Charlie till far too late in the progression of the illness, when he had to agree it was too late. The protracted legal process turned out to be correct in the end, but if the medic had seen Charlie in January, when funds were being raised, things could have been different as his opinion could have swayed both the UK doctors and the courts.

Page created 3rd September 2017. Last edit 2017.

World factbook infant mortality estimates per 1000 for 2016 - All with Universal "social" healthcare.
United Kingdom 4.30	European Union 4.00	Canada 4.60	Cuba 4.50

World factbook infant mortality estimates per 1000 for 2016 - With individual insurance paying healthcare.
USA 5.80

Comments were made on the above topic, and indeed some UK hospital trusts are (or were) performing 10% or more worse (but still below USA average) according to reports today (Sept 3rd).
Looking at specific interventions, Table 1 shows that the price of a normal delivery in the United States was estimated to be more than 50% higher than in France or Canada, while the price of a caesarean section was 30% higher than in France and more than 50% higher than in Canada. (OECD)