According to the OECD, no country spends more for health care than the US,  both as a percent of GDP and in absolute dollars per capita.   Just our public health care expenditures per capita, not including private health care expenditures, exceed the combined public and private expenditures of Mexico, Poland, the Slovac Republic, Korea, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Greece Spain, Portugal, New Zealand, Finland, Ireland, Japan, the UK, and Austria.  In addition, just our private expenditures of $2,687 per capita exceed BOTH the public and private expenditures of Italy, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, and the Netherlands.  Our combined public and private expenditures per capita of $4,887 exceed that of Australia by more than twice, and that of Japan by 2 1/2 times, both of whom have life expectancies more than four years longer than ours.

To say that we get no return on this investment in two competing health care systems is a gross understatement.  It makes less sense than building jet airplanes with two engines, one facing forward and the other facing backwards.  Yet we spend twenty times as much for health care than we do for the aircraft industry.

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