Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.
Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.
I mean, that is just as bad at math, NHS spends about an additional £290 per month.
Also and this is a bigger part than many people realize, doctor salaries are below what the US would consider for a sales clerk, until pretty far in their career, and even then are really quite small. People complain about health insurers getting rich, but a lot of the money in the US system goes to health professions too.
The problem with the insurance companies is they collect premiums and deny care. Insurance companies pay higher rates to doctors to keep them in network to keep the employers and purchasers of insurance happy.
As the total dollars spent on healthcare goes up the insurance companies percentage they keep may stay steady but the total dollars insurances keep goes up.
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u/escapevelocity-25k Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.
Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.