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Simple Correlation of Total Healthcare spending verses Total Healthacre cost with graph. The .81 shows a strong link between more privatised care and total cost while there is a very weak link between more public care and total cost.
Healthcare can either create money or health.
Beyond the correlation ... did your research yield any data on quality of healthcare?
Sorry forget source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). SOURCE: OECD Health Data 2004