Many single-payer (nationally funded) healthcare systems pay a lot less for drugs, services, and equipment than US insurers do. They have a monopsony and therefore a lot of buying power–makes sense, right? Erik recently has a revelation that calls this logic into question… though without any clear answers.
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In this case Wikipedia for each country’s size and the biggest healthcare providers in the US.
Of note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita
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