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Re:High US health care spending explained by its high materi... by yummyfajitas on Sunday March 12, 2017 @08:47PM (#13854343)
We are all aware that the US spends a lot on healthcare. The article we are discussing provides a good explanation of why.

The fact that health care and health outcomes are minimally correlated is well known; see RAND, Oregon, and lots of non-RCT studies that generally fail to find much correlation (e.g. this one, which made the rounds recently https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/25135... ). I'm not sure what the relevance of that is to this article, however.

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Re:High US health care spending explained by its high materi... by conistonwater on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:00PM (#13854415)
AFAICT, the article explains it only in the statistical sense of the word, not the plain-English sense, so I think you're missing the point of the comment.
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Re:High US health care spending explained by its high materi... by yummyfajitas on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:05PM (#13854435)
The plain english explanation is that Americans consume a lot of everything relative to GDP/capita, and health care is not an exception to this.
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