The NHS and the F-22

Some back of the envelope calculations:

• US public health care spending per capita: ~$3200
• UK public health care spending per capita: ~$2200
• Difference between US and UK: ~$1000
• Number of people in United States: ~300,000,000
• Number of people multiplied by difference in public health care spending between US and UK: ~$300,000,000,000
• Cost of an F-22 Raptor: $150,000,000
• Number of F-22 Raptors we could buy following wholesale adoption of NHS: ~2000
• Number of F-22 Raptors that the Air Force has wanted in its most soaring flights of fancy: ~650
• Number that we have right now: ~187
• Difference between the number that the USAF wanted and the number we have: ~460
• Amount of money we’d have left over after buying the USAF, say, 500 F-22s: $225,000,000,000