RiverDad
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2) NO - you are still not getting it. You are quoting ONLY federal transfer payments to the provinces.
Your entire argument is a tempest in a teapot of your own creation. You got it into your head that I'm referring to federal transfer payments and I never even made mention of this, in other words, you're completely making up some argument, attributing it to me, and then setting out to refute it.
Let me help you out - a provincial government is still a government, just like a state government is a government. Government spending is both provincial + federal or state + federal.
FFS, I gave you the damn link so you could verify any questions that popped into your mind instead of shooting from the hip and making a fool of yourself but apparently you couldn't be bothered to click the link and verify how WHO compiled the data. Here is the exact category title "Per capita government expenditure on health at average exchange rate (US$)"
Here is a different category of spending for 2009 "Per capita total expenditure on health at average exchange rate (US$)" US= $7,960 & Canada = $4.519.
Now watch this - primitive people often believe that what I'm about to do is magic, but it's not really, us sophisticated people know this thing called math - but to people in the dark about math, this looks like magic.
There is a category labeleld "Private expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health" and for Canada this amounts to 29.4% of health care spending.
Here comes the magic, but don't be frightened: We take total spending of $4,519 and multiply by 0.294 and we see that private per capita spending in Canada amounts to $1,328. Next we take total spending of $4,519 and subtract the private spending of $1,328 and this leaves us with $3,191 of government spending. And that's the exact same figure I quoted earlier.
So like I noted earlier, I seem to know more about everything than you. Take that to the bank.