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kpete

(71,986 posts) Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:14 PM Mar 2014

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USA Highest Per-Capita Healthcare Spending - YET - One Of Lowest Life Expectancies

The U.S. has by far the highest per-capita healthcare spending... and one of the lowest life expectancies of any of the world's richest countries.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-spending-2014-3#ixzz2ulOugj1O

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USA Highest Per-Capita Healthcare Spending - YET - One Of Lowest Life Expectancies (Original Post) kpete Mar 2014 OP

And the only country with lightly-regulated private MannyGoldstein Mar 2014 #1

It's the invisible hand at work ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 #2

Sucker born every minute. Octafish Mar 2014 #3

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

1. And the only country with lightly-regulated private

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:28 PM

Mar 2014

health insurers - and now we even subsidize 'em.

eppur_se_muova

(36,261 posts)

2. It's the invisible hand at work ...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 01:57 PM

Mar 2014

If you had an invisible hand, could you resist using it to steal stuff ? Corporations can't.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

3. Sucker born every minute.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 02:03 PM

Mar 2014

And when one's killed off by bad medicine or big pharma, three more are ready to take his place.

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