• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Does the US only spend double per capita than we do? I thought cost was an order of magnitude worse in their private healthcare.

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      5 months ago

      We’ve been spending much more per capita in the NHS in recent years than we used to. Part of that is the aging population and Covid, but a big part is probably the increase in privatisation. Paying agency workers to fill up chronic staffing shortages etc