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Re:Physicist Leon Lederman died age 96 selling his Nobel Pri... by theonemind on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:40AM (#18575784)
Perhaps so. However, it does seem likely that the absurd price of health care (by almost any measure—what other countries pay, by how prices would look in a functioning efficient market, etc.) factored into this.
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Re:Physicist Leon Lederman died age 96 selling his Nobel Pri... by rayiner on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:48AM (#18575801)
Nursing home care is expensive because it’s extremely labor intensive. It’s easy to spend $30,000 a year just for someone to watch your kid 8 hours a day. Is it really that unreasonable to spend $50,000-100,000 per year for 24/7 care plus living quarters?
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