From 2000 to 2018, US per capita went from 4557 to 10586, so 2.3x as much. (All costs in this comment in US dollars per capita).

Germany went from 2889 to 5986, 2.1x as much.

France went from 2686 to 4965, 1.8x as much.

Canada (yes, I know Canada is not EU...I'm tossing them in as a bonus) went from 2451 to 4974, 2.0x as much.

Italy went from 2029 to 3428, 1.7x as much.

Japan (another bonus) went from 1851 to 4766, 2.6x as much.

UK, 1561 to 4070, 2.6x as much.

Data here: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

Uncheck the "latest data available" box to activate the range sliders and get a graph of costs over time.

Two things stand out in the graphs:

1. US is more expensive over the whole range of the data (1970 to 2018).

2. They are all going up, mostly at roughly comparable rates. I just looked at the G7 countries above, but the same holds for most OECD countries. It looks like the US has averaged going up a little more than many of the rest, but it looks like nearly everybody has got a problem in this area.

Event if the relative increases were the same, the absolute costs are on a different basis. US health expenditures per capita is double the average EU nation.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

I understand the US is spending more. I'm wondering what is the baseline to compare US spending growth rate.

It's in those charts, ah maybe 4-5 down..