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There are a limited number of health care practitioners, health care facilities, etc. The demand for health care is unlimited as people get older.
by zip1234 8y ago
There are a limited number of health care practitioners, health care facilities, etc. The demand for health care is unlimited as people get older.
- dv_dt 8y agoAnd yet in nations like Japan, where there are proportionately a greater number of elderly than in the US, their healthcare delivers at a much lower cost (by half!) as well as a higher life expectancy. This despite a decades long economic stagnation, as opposed to the curious economic "good times" in the US which seems to decrease our life expectancy and increase our health care costs.