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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
...When the government runs things, it gets more expensive. The new privately ran prisons in the US work on less money and are better for the prisoners than that of the government ran prisons.
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That's quite the leap you're making and it's based on faulty information.
Let's start with looking at some underlying data. Below is a listing of health care spending per capita by country:
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Rank Countries Amount
# 1 United States: $4,631.00 per capita
# 2 Switzerland: $3,222.00 per capita
# 3 Germany: $2,748.00 per capita
# 4 Iceland: $2,608.00 per capita
# 5 Canada: $2,535.00 per capita
# 6 Denmark: $2,420.00 per capita
# 7 France: $2,349.00 per capita
= 8 Belgium: $2,268.00 per capita
= 8 Norway: $2,268.00 per capita
# 10 Netherlands: $2,246.00 per capita
# 11 Australia: $2,211.00 per capita
# 12 Austria: $2,162.00 per capita
# 13 Italy: $2,032.00 per capita
# 14 Japan: $2,011.00 per capita
# 15 Ireland: $1,953.00 per capita
# 16 United Kingdom: $1,764.00 per capita
# 17 Finland: $1,664.00 per capita
# 18 New Zealand: $1,623.00 per capita
# 19 Spain: $1,556.00 per capita
# 20 Portugal: $1,439.00 per capita
# 21 Greece: $1,399.00 per capita
# 22 Czech Republic: $1,031.00 per capita
# 23 Hungary: $842.00 per capita
# 24 Slovakia: $690.00 per capita
# 25 Mexico: $491.00 per capita
Weighted average: $2,006.52 per capita
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/he...tal-per-capita
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So there you have it. Your "private" system is costing much more than any public system. Your total healthcare spending per capita is double the weighted average!
So let me ask you how you think goverment run healthcare is more expensive?