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People on Medicare are over 65 and people in the VA have been in the military. Both of those groups of people are going to have much higher medical needs than the general population.

NHS spending is £2892 per person/year, that's quite a bit lower.

Huh, that's much lower than I thought.

There's a bit of complication because we're comparing one system with not much insurance with a different system that has a lot of insurance.

Here's a nice run through of the numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42950587

Interesting, this paper gives £2256 (table 2) https://www.health.org.uk/sites/default/files/AutumnBudgetWh...

This page gives $4246: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

We would also need to know the average number of visits per patient before this data means anything otherwise it's just data without context or meaning.

US health spending in aggregate is between 2-3% more than comparable European countries. Life expectancy is several years lower.