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“Total expenditure includes both public and private expenditures.” So those statistics are meaningless in this context right?


Do you have a better reference for per-capita numbers?

Private healthcare spending in the UK is a fraction of public spending (because even if you have private insurance in the UK, most healthcare is still provided publicly (you still go to public-funded GP/emergency and only go private if referred)).

In addition to this, it's a relatively fixed fraction (~20%):

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/chart/uk-spending-on-public...




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