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"In the US food is generally cheaper than it is in Europe, medical care generally more expensive."

I'm not sure when medical care is cheaper in the US. Within the VA system, maybe?

Also, the ranking does not stack up against wikipedia figures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... (Where PPP is already accounted for, so this guy is doing it twice).

UK would come in ~35th. Similar to Nevada or Michigan.

> I'm not sure when medical care is cheaper in the US

You literally just quoted the article saying it's more expensive in the US.

> In the US ... medical care generally more expensive

generally = sometimes it is less expensive. I guess it wasn't clear, but my point was that healthcare is on average much more expensive in the US.

The author is saying that the medical care is more expensive in the US, not cheaper.

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