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The National Geographic compares health care costs: on the left is health care spending per person, and on the right, average life expectancy. A line that slopes down from left to right indicates relative inefficiency, while a line sloping up from left to right indicates a relatively efficient system.

Posted on December 26, 2009 with Comments and 161 notes

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  axinomancy:fleetfootedfox:nonduality:nickdouglas:justin:ronworkman:soupsoup:colinashe: The National Geographic compares...
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  Health Care. A major reason for me being in New Zealand right now, and not in the US.
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  Startling. Maddening.
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  KEEP YER GUBRNMINT OFF MY MEDICARE. LIFE EXPECTANCY IS FOR COMMUNISTS. Actually, Mexico seems to have this shit figured...
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  Sigh. Exactly. This is exhausting… Attention Tumblr-sphere: This “truth’s” been debunked ad-nauseam already. You would...
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  and people think nothing is wrong with our health care system?
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  Guess it’s time to move to New Zealand.
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  Are these directly correlated, though? I’ve been to a few foreign countries, and they don’t eat nearly as much as we do,...
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  nickdouglas:justin:ronworkman:soupsoup:colinashe: The National Geographic compares health care costs: on the left is...
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  WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1!
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  If you can’t seem to find the United States, look up.
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  National Geographic compares health care costs: on the left is health care spending per person, and on the right,...
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  awesome. (The graph is awesome, not...shitty situation it portrays.)
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  I still don’t understand why all the fear surrounding public healthcare option?!
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  Have posted this elsewhere so much hattip to @nick here.
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