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Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick by superpermutat0r on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:59PM (#19409868)
Not really, it's Medicaid and Medicare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_S...

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Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick by s_y_n_t_a_x on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:11PM (#19410313)
That's the government's spending on healthcare insurance. Which furthers my point, those insurance companies are paying the cost of development that gets tacked on to drug prices and other healthcare services.
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