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kpete

(71,996 posts) Thu Jun 7, 2012, 09:27 AM Jun 2012

Health-care spending vs. health

The health-care system isn’t what makes us healthy. It’s where we go once we’re sick. And it’s where we spend all our money. The Bipartisan Policy Center puts the difference in infographic form:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/health-care-spending-vs-health/2012/06/05/gJQAxCPjGV_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein

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Health-care spending vs. health (Original Post) kpete Jun 2012 OP

excellent graphic! handmade34 Jun 2012 #1

From the article... CanSocDem Jun 2012 #2

handmade34

(22,756 posts)

1. excellent graphic!

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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 09:43 AM

Jun 2012

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)

2. From the article...

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Thu Jun 7, 2012, 10:05 AM

Jun 2012

The country's health-care (debate) INDUSTRY is like a driver who has grown so obsessed with the workings of his car that he's largely forgotten where he was driving.

Read Medical Nemisis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich.

http://www.4shared.com/office/FPnGMfKj/illich_ivan__1976__medical_nem.html

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