I hope my response in post #2 was of interest, and thank you Arthur for raising the topic

Members were too polite to comment, or perhaps didn't notice, that this paragraph SHOULD have read as follows :-


• UK population is about 2/3 of that in the Philippines ( 65 million / 104 million ). UK GDP is estimated around £ 1,800 billion * ( NOT £ 1.8 billion ) , 10 times that of the Philippines. The UK spends over 9%, and Philippines 4.5%, of GDP on health. " Out-of –pocket " expenditure on health in the UK is about a tenth of total health spending, compared to about 60% in the Philippines. General government expenditure on health in the UK is over 80%, compared to about a third in the Philippines.