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Steve Ballmer was talking about how healthcare costs have gone up like 400% over a 30 year period but expected lifespans only increased by .6 years. We’re pahin
by diogenescynic 8y ago
Steve Ballmer was talking about how healthcare costs have gone up like 400% over a 30 year period but expected lifespans only increased by .6 years. We’re pahing exponentially more for relatively insignificant gains.
- maxxxxx 8y agoBut where does the money go?
- hindsightRegret 8y agoshareholders and management
- bunderbunder 8y agoHere's one study on the subject: https://www.air.org/system/files/downloads/report/Delta-Cost-Trends-in-College%20Spending-January-2016.pdf https://www.air.org/system/files/downloads/report/Delta-Cost... The table on page 11 summarizes the story. The big consistent increases in spending are on student services and academic support. The growth in spending on student services covers a lot of things. One big chunk is explained by the trend toward organizing and professionalizing things that were historically handled in a sort of ad-hoc manner by a student's academic advisor, sometimes by the Greek system, or by nothing at all: Career counseling and networking, academic advising, mental health services, stuff like that. Another big chunk is non-academic, non-instructional activities like student clubs and athletics. I believe advertising costs also tend to get lumped in under the "student services" budget item. Academic support is stuff that's related, but maybe not quite so directly student facing: Dean's offices, instructional material development, the IT department, stuff like that.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoIn the case of healthcare, profits and inefficiencies.
- gumby 8y agoLet's not ignore quality of life, though I agree it probably hasn't increased "4X" (whatever that would mean).