We spent 17.3% of our GDP on health care in 2009, up from 16.2% in 2008, an increase of 6.8%. LA Times
That's about 2.5 trillion dollars.
Which works out to very close to $8000 per capita.
We spend approximately a trillion dollars more than the otherwise most expensive industrialized country would spend on health care using their system on our
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