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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

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Borderlands Beaver 🇨🇦 @sandilands.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

In the United States, the three levels of government spend more taxpayer money ($US 7,350/person) to provide healthcare to less than half the population than Canada does ($6,700) to cover everyone in the country. And Canada gets better results. ⸤1110a⸥

Healthcare Spending in the United States and Canada
(All values in US dollars)

US: $17,000/person | Canada: $6,700/person

US spending breakdown
Public Sector (Federal and state governments, 2024):
• $866 B on Medicare to cover 62 million; $13,675/person
• $900 B on Medicaid to cover 84 million; $10,380/person
• $71 B on Veteran’s Health to cover 6.3 million; $11,269/veteran
• $23 B on CHIP (Children) to cover 3.2 million; $7190/child
• $7 B on IHA (Indian Health) to cover 1.6 million; $4,375/person
$1.9 T to cover 157 million people ($12,100/beneficiary; $5,588/capita)
• $600 B State and local government expenditures
$2.5 T to cover 330 million people in the States legally; $7,350/capita

Private Sector:
• $2.8 T private insurance and out-of-pocket; $8,240/capita

Overall Expenditure:
• $5.8 T total healthcare spending for 340 million people; $17,059/capita

Total US spending is $17,000/person, including taxes, private insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and insurer profit.

Canada spending breakdown
• $6,480 ($US)/person universal single-payer program
• $6,700 ($US)/person total, including dental, pharmaceuticals, eyeglasses, hearing aids

Canada has better outcomes
✅ +3.4 years life expectancy
✅ 26% lower infant mortality
✅ 30% lower under-5 mortality
✅ 50% lower maternal mortality
✅ 26% lower age-standardized cancer mortality (deaths per 100,000)
✅ 30% lower age-standardized heart disease mortality (deaths per 100,000)
✅ 42% lower obesity prevalence (adults, BMI ≥ 30)

BOTTOM LINE: Canada as a whole spends less per capita ($US 6,700) to cover 100% of its population than the various US governments spend ($US 7,350) to cover about half its population, while getting better outcomes.

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