An average western European or Canadian spends $3500 a year, and people live to around 75, thats $262,000 over their lifetime. They ALL get decent healthcare.
EACH typical American lives a few years less, but he or she spends at least twice that per capita- $525,000, Because we should also consider interest, often in reality, far more. Its also obvious that most Americans increasingly don't get good healthcare. :(
Gag clauses and pressure by insurers insure that. But, for the purpose of argument, lets say the average American spends $7000 a year, an old figure, on healthcare. (The real figure is probably getting closer to $10,000/year, we don't know, there is a lag on data.)
If so, COMPLETELY IGNORING THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY (which would make the amount far greater) the typical American spends more than a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS MORE than the typical Canadian, or Briton on healthcare (they, wholly in taxes, here the government already pays 60% of medical costs)
