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Post subject: Re: Miscellaneous charts, graphs and maps
Posted: Fri March 22, 2019 7:55 pm
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19724 Location: Cumberland, RI
bune wrote:
wtf is up with Maine? White wall or something?
I believe there's at least one county up there that does something funky with its electoral votes, like it splits them or something (dont @ me if I'm way off).
Post subject: Re: Miscellaneous charts, graphs and maps
Posted: Mon April 15, 2019 12:27 pm
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I feel like I need to see healthcare costs split out between what didn't exist X number of years ago and what did to get a better understanding of it. The further back one goes, the more I speculate that healthcare was cheaper because fewer treatments existed, and life expectancy was shorter.
College education costs, on the other hand....that I'm more convinced that there's a scam afoot.
Post subject: Re: Miscellaneous charts, graphs and maps
Posted: Mon April 15, 2019 1:24 pm
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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am Posts: 21845
Green Habit wrote:
I feel like I need to see healthcare costs split out between what didn't exist X number of years ago and what did to get a better understanding of it. The further back one goes, the more I speculate that healthcare was cheaper because fewer treatments existed, and life expectancy was shorter.
There’s certainly some significant cost involved in new technologies (an MRI machine costs $3 million to buy, $4 million to install/house, $100,000 a year to maintain, and can require on site salaried maintenance staff for larger hospitals).
Problem with this, though, is that US health care costs are anomalous among developed countries, but neither life expectancy nor range of treatments is better (or improving faster).
Post subject: Re: Miscellaneous charts, graphs and maps
Posted: Mon April 15, 2019 1:35 pm
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Joined: Wed December 12, 2012 10:33 pm Posts: 6932
McParadigm wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
I feel like I need to see healthcare costs split out between what didn't exist X number of years ago and what did to get a better understanding of it. The further back one goes, the more I speculate that healthcare was cheaper because fewer treatments existed, and life expectancy was shorter.
There’s certainly some significant cost involved in new technologies (an MRI machine costs $3 million to buy, $4 million to install/house, $100,000 a year to maintain, and can require on site salaried maintenance staff for larger hospitals).
Problem with this, though, is that US health care costs are anomalous among developed countries, but neither life expectancy nor range of treatments is better (or improving faster).
This seems fair, I just see way too many people chalk it up to entirely one or the other.
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