Posted by Errol Pierre The United States with a population of
over 313 million people spends over 17% of its GDP on health
expenditures while over 14% of its population lack health
insurance. This has led to runaway costs, access to care issues,
and in the face of recent healthcare reform efforts, worries of
severe physician shortages come 2014. On the contrary, Sweden,
with a much smaller, homogenous population of 9.4 million people
has been able to keep health expenditures less than 10% of its
GDP while covering all of its population. If efficiency of
health dollars were the metric to compare health systems
internationally, Sweden would lead the U.S. in this regard for
the last 30 years. Despite their successes, like all developed
nations, Sweden faced threats of increasing costs in the 1990’s
due to an economic downturn. Additionally, Sweden also saw an
aging population with a longer life expectancy from advancements
in technology and modern medicine. When healthcare is government
run it inevitably will su