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I have heard alot from Americans about the great public cost we have here in Europe for our public health care and that taxburden it lays on the citizen. So I made a easy comparision just for fun, between my country Sweden with public healthcare and USA with private healthcare, then it come to public spending.
The result thas intersting:
Then it comes to percent of GDP the diffrence is + 1,2 % Sweden 7,8 % USA 6,6 %
Then it comes to funding per capita the diffrences: -289 dollar Sweden 2213 US $ ppp USA 2593 US $ ppp
That means that we in Sweden only pay a bit more then you americans in taxes compared with our earnings and even less then you then it comes to US $ ppp. And at the same time you pay a lot more for your health care directly.
If you wondering how I got the stat I used this site: with data from this site: http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,2340,en_2825_495642_2085200_1_1_1_1,00.html
And I took tabel 6 and tabel 7 and then calculated it with tabel 10.
The result thas intersting:
Then it comes to percent of GDP the diffrence is + 1,2 % Sweden 7,8 % USA 6,6 %
Then it comes to funding per capita the diffrences: -289 dollar Sweden 2213 US $ ppp USA 2593 US $ ppp
That means that we in Sweden only pay a bit more then you americans in taxes compared with our earnings and even less then you then it comes to US $ ppp. And at the same time you pay a lot more for your health care directly.
If you wondering how I got the stat I used this site: with data from this site: http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,2340,en_2825_495642_2085200_1_1_1_1,00.html
And I took tabel 6 and tabel 7 and then calculated it with tabel 10.