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How abvout this graph: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/healthcare-spending-and-life-expectancy.html http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/healthcare-spe
by cabalamat 17y ago
How abvout this graph: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/healthcare-spending-and-life-expectancy.html http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/healthcare-spending-a...
Just about every other rich country spends less per person on healthcare than the USA (typically about half), and the people live longer. The Japanese, the longest-lived large country in the world, spend about a third per person of what the USA does.
Clearly dysfunctional. "Wildly"? That's a matter for debate.
- zargon 17y agoGraphs like that might actually say something if they included a "lifestyle" axis and a "uses car insurance for oil changes" axis, as munctional puts it.