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Taxes?
Actual after-tax purchasing power relative to the amount of work that you do, is perhaps a better optimization target?
You'd really have to look at entitlements you'd use as well. For example in a country with state health care plans you will pay more in taxes but not have to spend as much on a health care plan. I wasn't suggesting a specific metric, obviously.
I don't think this is true? Britain at least spends a smaller proportion of government revenue on healthcare than the US does, and I imagine France and Australia do as well. Or if you are comparing british style to french style, the trade off is price vs quality, not where you pay.
It's probably worth considering taxes relative to whatever job you are applying for, and the gov't services in line with all the other benefits.
You also have to look at effective tax rate. One measure of this is total revenue / GDP, which you can see some different measures of in Wikipedia.
UK taxes 34-39% of GDP, US taxes 24-29% of GDP. So the fact that UK spends a smaller part of their total revenue doesn't mean they are more efficient in public health spending, since their tax revenues are quite a bit higher.