Yaron Brook is an entrepreneur, podcaster and writer, and the current chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute. You can watch his video that I raised here.

Despite the NHS providing universal healthcare for everyone in the UK, the British government spends a lower percentage of UK GDP, and a far lower dollar amount on healthcare than the US government does; and the US government spending on healthcare is only about half of the total spend, while most people in the UK don’t bother with any further health insurance. 

The UK is considerably poorer than the US, and would rank last or close to last if it were a state of the US, depending on the exchange rate used and other technical measurements.

While life expectancy largely tracks health spending in OECD countries, the US is stark exception to this trend; despite vastly higher health spending, average life expectancy at birth in the USA is 78.8, compared with 81.4 in the UK. Yaron suggested that this was because of confounding racial factors, however the US population group most closely matching the UK, non-Hispanic whites, have a life expectancy of 78.9, still well below the UK figure.

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