HoustonChronicle.com - Health care gains a record share of economy

"Health spending accounts for nearly 15 percent of the [US] economy, the largest share on record, the Bush administration said Thursday.

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Even though more than 43 million Americans are uninsured, the United States devotes more of its economy to health care than other industrial countries. In 2001 -- the last year for which comparative figures are available -- health accounted for 10.7 percent of the gross domestic product in Germany, 9.7 percent in Canada and 9.5 percent in France, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development."

Now who's complaining about socialized medecin?