u/Mando_the_Pando

The US federal gov spends 1.9 trillion usd/year on healthcare. Coming out to 6.300 usd/person. Sweden spends about 60.000kr/person, coming out to 5.500 usd and Denmark spends about the same as Sweden.

How can the US outspend Sweden by 15% per capita and still not have public healthcare? I get you can have an argument about costs etc and come to the political decision to not have public healthcare, but then you would expect the federal spending to be lower than countries with public healthcare. So how come it isn’t lower?