At 03:52 PM 5/16/04, Dan Minette wrote:
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Let us next go to Medicare. That is definitely worse. The yearly shortfall is expected to be about 3.5% of GDP by 2075. The worst part of the added cost is the massive rise in health care costs. This will have to be addressed, one way or another. The US has far higher medical costs than other major countries without a corresponding advantage in the statistics of health.
What is (are) the reason(s) why the US has far higher medical costs than other major countries without a corresponding advantage in the statistics of health? Is it (are they) something such as an excess of obvious inefficiencies in the system, or is it frex something like that the US spends a disproportionate amount of the money spent on research and development of new medical procedures and medicines, and other countries can take advantage of those new advances without having had to have paid for their development, or what?
-- Ronn! :)
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