claim: the united states spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the u.k." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay in france."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: dec 20, 2015 ... to make his point, sanders compared health care costs between the united  states and two other western nations -- the united kingdom and france. "why is  it that we spend almost three times per capita as to what they spend in the u.k. --  50 percent more than what they pay in france?" sanders asked.
evidence_2: oct 22, 2012 ... the average spending on health care among the other 33 developed oecd  countries was $3,268 per person. the u.s. is a very rich ... it shows that: a  coronary bypasses costs between nearly 50 percent more than in canada,  australia and france, and are double the price in germany. hip and knee ...
evidence_3: oct 8, 2015 ... this was almost 50 percent more than the next-highest spender (france, 11.6%  of gdp) and almost double what was spent in the u.k. (8.8%). ... including on  private insurance premiums, u.s. spending towered over that of the other  countries at $3,442 per capita—more than five times what was spent in ...
evidence_4: jul 23, 2014 ... the u.s. delivers roughly three times as many mammograms, two-and-a-half  times as many mri scans, and a third more c-sections per capita than the ... this  year the united states will spend almost 18 percent of the gross domestic product  (gdp) on healthcare—six percentage points more than the ...
evidence_5: the oecd found that in 2013, the u.s. spent $8,713 per person or 16.4 percent  of its gdp on health care—far higher than the oecd average of 8.9 percent per  ... of more expensive, state-of-the-art medical technologies and drugs fuels health  care spending for development costs and because they generate demand for ...