But you [Australians] have an overwhelmingly publicly-financed [health care] system...I come from a country that has the private monopoly system. I can tell you it is three times more expensive than the UK, and I just wanted to share with you that UK life expectancy is 81.6 years, in the US it's 78.7 years. And we pay three times more than you do for the NHS. (Jeffrey D. Sachs)

But you [Australians] have an overwhelmingly publicly-financed [health care] system...I come from a country that has the private monopoly system. I can tell you it is three times more expensive than the UK, and I just wanted to share with you that UK life expectancy is 81.6 years, in the US it's 78.7 years. And we pay three times more than you do for the NHS.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

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