# Looking for a post: Health care and % GDP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-post-health-care-and-gdp/467808>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-post-health-care-and-gdp/467808 "2008-10-14T00:46:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-post-health-care-and-gdp/467808/1 "2008-10-14T00:46:36Z")

</div>

A week or so ago someone posted a quote from a website that compared the % GDP several countries spent on health care. There were one or two other columns as well. The post may have been in GD. My search-fu is not mighty, especially with a five-minute wait between searches. Does anyone remember this post?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-post-health-care-and-gdp/467808/2 "2008-10-14T01:06:45Z")

</div>

Was it this thread: [What’s the Maths on Universal Healthcare?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=487146&highlight=universal)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-post-health-care-and-gdp/467808/3 "2008-10-14T01:09:48Z")

</div>

> [@Cunctator](#):
>
> Was it this thread: [What’s the Maths on Universal Healthcare?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=487146&highlight=universal)

The one I’m thinking of has a quote in chart form. I don’t know if it was necessarily a thread on UHC. ISTR a comment by the poster that [country] is second to the U.S. in expenditures, and he used an exclamation mark.

Your link looks interesting though. I’ll read it.