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Originally Posted by ianch99

Maybe we should just be paying more for this service, i.e. as much as some of our peers in Europe:

UK health spending as a share of GDP

Maybe we should start funding healthcare the same way the rest of the developed world does rather than in a manner emulated only by communist states.

Much of the rest of the first world may have a point with funding through a combination of single payer and private insurance.

As Hugh identified we spend about as much taxpayer money on healthcare as many of our peers but lack the private sector funding that compliments it elsewhere.