Medical expenditures per capita in the US, on a PPP basis (cost parity) are something like 50% higher than the Euro average. This has been so for the last 30 years.
Euro taxes are NOT hidden! They stare me in the face daily!
This has nothing to do with how these medical expenditures are paid for. Nor has it anything to do with US military expenditures. Medical care is a rather smaller part of social spending in Europe than in the US, believe it or not. Pensions, unemployment, general government salaries (the size of the state, for instance there are way more police per capita in Europe), thats the big difference.
Its simply that anything medical in the US is vastly more expensive than in Europe. The US has piles of regulatory and legal complications that drive costs up. Its a bit counterintuitive to say that a US “free market” is more burdened by regulation than “socialist” systems, but it is true regardless.
It just seems more expensive, but I doubt it is, if you were to do a financial audit of the respective healthcare systems and their sources of funding. All socialist nations use hidden taxes to conceal how much they screw over their citizenry.
In America, you live one gradient better on the same income than in Europe.
I would never want socialized medicine if I had a choice in the matter. Socialized medicine is a big reason why I am not loyal to my country. If my country’s survival was dependent upon me, and me alone, I will lift up a beer to the demise of Canada.
Socialism has made Canada a criminal nation that can only do right when it ceases to exist.