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Originally Posted by scottw
"According to an analysis that excludes pensions and social security, the richest 1% of the American population in 2007 owned 34.6% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 50.5%. Thus, the top 20% of Americans owned 85% of the country's wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 15%"
80/20 rule never fails.....applies to everything
interesting list
Here's the list of the countries with the highest wealth inequality, according to the Allianz report.
U.S.A. — 80.56.
The United States currently operates under a mixed market health care system. Government sources (federal, state, and local) account for 45% of U.S. health care expenditures.[89] Private sources account for the remainder of costs, with 38% of people receiving health coverage through their employers and 17% arising from other private payment such as private insurance and out-of-pocket co-pays
Sweden — 79.90.
The Swedish public health system is funded through taxes levied by the county councils, but partly run by private companies.
U.K. — 75.72.
The four countries of the United Kingdom have separate but co-operating public health care systems that were created in 1948
Indonesia — 73.61.
Indonesia's community health system were organized in three tier, on top of the chart is Community Health Center (Puskesmas), followed by Health Sub-Center on the second level and Village-Level Integrated Post at the third level.
Austria — 73.59.
Healthcare in Austria. The nation of Austria has a two-tier health care system in which virtually all individuals receive publicly funded care, but they also have the option to purchase supplementary private health insurance.
Germany — 73.34.
The University Medical Center Freiburg in Germany
Germany has a universal multi-payer system with two main types of health insurance: "Law-enforced health insurance" (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) known as sickness funds "Krankenkasse" and "Privat" (Private Krankenversicherung) .[55][56] Compulsory insurance applies to those below a set income level and is provided through private non-profit "sickness funds" at similar rates for all members, and is paid for with joint employer-employee contributions.
Colombia — 73.18.
The national constitution was reformed in 1991 and with this purpose the general system of social security was reformed with the implementation of Law 100, which widely extended health coverage to the population;
Chile — 73.17.
Chile has maintained a dual health care system in which its citizens can voluntarily opt for coverage by either the public National Health Insurance Fund or any of the country's private health insurance companies.
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We already spend the money
Total estimated US spending on healthcare in
2016 was 3.3 trillion or $10,348 per person
Between 20 and 30% of that is administrative costs, etc.
Feel free to look up the percent of GDP that other countries spend on healthcare, We win, as long as the highest is winning
If we had a healthcare system that provided primary care alone it would reduce our total healthcare costs by reducing Emergency room usage and providing treatment at earlier stages of disease.
Never mind the drug costs in this country compared to others.