For a fraction of the population, too. Funny how that works.
Not only do Switzerland and Singapore have only a fraction of our population, they don’t have millions of illegal aliens draining the budget (federal and state/local), along with the crime they bring.
Also their combined defense budgets are, as we say in Yiddish, only “bupkis” (chump change, pennies) as compared to that of the US and OUR WORLDWIDE RESPONSIBLITIES.
You just cannot compare the US to these pipsqueak countries regarding healthcare policies or much of any other national policies.
If it weren’t for the US, there would be no Switzerland or Singapore. Maybe a Swissdeutchland and a Peoples Republic of Singapore instead.
It is like the French people who complain that US visitors don’t speak French (I do, un peu), to which we reply. “Maybe, but thanks to us, you still do”.
There is a difference.
They are using percent of GDP figures, not actual dollars.
The Singapore Health Savings Accounts makes sense to me. But then again, there is not a high percent of population living totally off government handouts there like we have here. They have a very productive, very law abiding population with virtually no drug abuse, fatherless children, or politicians buying elections with taxpayer dollars.
Not only that, Singapore and South Korea have relatively healthy and homogenous populations.