Reply #34: Quite

[Prophet 451]

I just worked this out. Assuming the US could do universal healthcare for the same roughly $2000 annual cost as the NHS and assuming the US population at 300 million (my schoolboy maths likes round figures), the total cost of covering the entire population would be around 600,000,000,000 or six hundred billion.

That sounds like a lot. However, according to Wiki, it's less than the annual military budget and far less than US citizens spend individually on healthcare (aprox. $2.26 trillion annually).