I find it interesting that despite everything to do with health care, we're only spending approximately 4% more on medical care than we were in 1949. This is a

I find it interesting that despite everything to do with health care, we're only spending approximately 4% more on medical care than we were in 1949. This is almost meaningless by itself. An actually useful number would be comparing that to say, number of doctor visits/treatments and how effective those are.