jonathantellerelsberg
healthcare_graph
Graph showing international comparison of publicly provided health care. Against the left axis, gray bars show the percentage of the population covered by the public system. Against the right axis, the line shows the percentage of GDP expended by each country's government to achieve this level of coverage. Of the countries compared (Israel, Spain, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and France) only the United States achieves less than 100% coverage, managing only 28% coverage. This despite the fact that the U.S. is shown to spend more of its GDP on public coverage than five of the comparison countries, and moderately less than four of the others. Data source: for percent of GDP, Word Resources Institute, Earth Trends database, earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/results.php?years=2005-... (accessed Oct 2, 2009) ; for percent of population, Wikipedia, "Universal health care" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care (accessed Oct 5, 2009) and American Medical Students Association, "International Health Care Systems Primer" (PDF at www.amsa.org/uhc/IHSprimer.pdf).
healthcare_graph
Graph showing international comparison of publicly provided health care. Against the left axis, gray bars show the percentage of the population covered by the public system. Against the right axis, the line shows the percentage of GDP expended by each country's government to achieve this level of coverage. Of the countries compared (Israel, Spain, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and France) only the United States achieves less than 100% coverage, managing only 28% coverage. This despite the fact that the U.S. is shown to spend more of its GDP on public coverage than five of the comparison countries, and moderately less than four of the others. Data source: for percent of GDP, Word Resources Institute, Earth Trends database, earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/results.php?years=2005-... (accessed Oct 2, 2009) ; for percent of population, Wikipedia, "Universal health care" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care (accessed Oct 5, 2009) and American Medical Students Association, "International Health Care Systems Primer" (PDF at www.amsa.org/uhc/IHSprimer.pdf).