US per capita health expenditure: $11000USD (#1).
I don't know what the 'left' is doing there but it seems very efficient.
'Labour has defended the way it is campaigning on the NHS – but once again refused to confirm that Ed Miliband told the BBC that he wanted to “weaponise” the NHS in the election campaign.'
'The spokesman said: “I am not going to talk about words used in private conversations. They should not be shared and we will not talk about private conversations.'
Another mention of the term: https://nhsproviders.org/news-blogs/blogs/dont-weaponise-the...
If there were no danger of the NHS being weaponised, the term would go out of common use.
Do you still consider my use of a term coined by the left themselves as 'idiotic'?
> So here is a challenge to politicians who say they support the NHS. Be clear and straight about the numbers – for example, don’t double count what’s already been announced and don’t confuse five and one year commitments to boost a headline number. Acknowledge the scale of the funding needed to deliver services to meet our growing needs, and to rebuild our NHS, making it fit for the 21st century. That means looking beyond hospitals, important though they are, to other parts of the service which have suffered similar neglect, for which patients are today paying the price.
That "double counting" means that the amount of money being invested is less than claimed; the numbers of new staff being trained & recruited or retained is less than claimed; the numbers of new hospitals being built is less than claimed; etc.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
