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When you say 60% is not categorized, are you referring to the green slice in his chart? That's the amount he thinks the U.S. should be spending given its wealt
by jcl 16y ago
When you say 60% is not categorized, are you referring to the green slice in his chart? That's the amount he thinks the U.S. should be spending given its wealth and what other countries spend. He is intentionally only categorizing the parts that he thinks exceed other countries' expenditures.
(See the last paragraph of the conclusion.)
- russell 16y agoThank you for pointing that out. tltrbc (to long to read between compiles. And why too long? Coding in a Java framework.) Which goes back to my original question: What are these "extra expenses".
- crpatino 16y agoThose expenses are not "extra" at all. Every category shown in the graph is not the total expense, it is just the expense above international standards. By example, lets say the total drugs expense in the US is $100B (it is probably not, i am too lazy to go fetch the actual number in the article). The red slide in the graph labeled "Drugs" is not those $100B, but only the $39B of above standard drug expense. So, in this example, there is some % in the green area of the graph that corresponds to the remaining $61B of drug expense that is expected according to the size and wealth of the US population. This has been intentionally left uncategorized in order to suggest that you cannot cut those without compromising the ability of the health care system to provide the levels of service needed by the population.