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		krickle on Sept 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to stop hospitals from killing us The US has basically the worst cost of healthcare to life expectancy rate out of all the first world countries. They're going to have to improve either of those statistics to even contend with socialized medicine.

jonah on Sept 23, 2012 [–]

The US is way-off-the-chart bad actually:

http://andrewgelman.com/2009/12/healthcare_spen/

lostlogin on Sept 23, 2012 | [–]

Great link. It's interesting how $ spent seems not to correlate with life expectancy - as noted by the person who wrote the article.

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