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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by FredPret on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:54AM (#30047719)
Absolutely bonkers. One of every five dollars goes to healthcare.

To put this further into perspective: the US military budget is immense, as we know… and it clocks in at 3.7% of GDP [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266892/military-expendit...

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Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts by philjohn on Sunday January 23, 2022 @04:52PM (#30050848)
To put it even further into perspective, that's 2x as much as comparable western nations with single-payer, who have similar or better outcomes in most cases.
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