This contrasts starkly with the brutally inefficient privatized system in the U.S. The United States spends more on health care than any other country—almost $11,000 per person every year, compared to $4,300 in the UK, for example.[65] And yet health coverage is patchy. Those Americans who can afford to pay benefit from the best health care anywhere in the world. Yet tens of thousands of people die prematurely every year because they are unable to access health care.[66]
