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sickamore  2yr ago (text post)   755 thread views

Trying to find the long article on how USA's healthcare spending is actually inline with the country's discretionary spending

I vaguely remember an article from a blog with a name like "statistical social econ" or "analytical social sciences" or something simiar, where it says actually the US's healthcare expenditure is in line with the discretionary spending of its citizens. My vague memory of it is that basically, healthcare, at a certain point, becomes a "want" and not a "need". Though US does spend more per capita on healthcare vs other developed countries, it also spends a lot more than those countries in general - or so that's what I remember.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and can share the link? I wanted to find it but google hasn't proved as useful so I'm turning to all the smarties on TheMotte.

Thank you in advance!

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