We pay in another 15.3% for SS and Medicare...
Somehow, at about the same tax rate as us, they can afford to throw in free healthcare.
It helps that 5% of every one of my HC bills goes towards their free HC.
We come up with 45% of all new: drugs, procedures and equipment ever year.
Europe added together is in t he single digits.
For it we have the highest survival rates for the 12 most common forms of cancer et al.