[extropy-chat] Effectiveness of Medicine

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:41 PM 9/25/2005 -0400, Harvey wrote:

>It makes more sense to me that decreased health causes increased medical 
>spending.

It makes sense to me that with increased community wealth, even if unevenly 
distributed, health concerns will also increase and hence so will medical 
spending, authorized and otherwise, as a proportion of discretionary 
expenditure. (Abstracting from all the other aspects and variables of the 
topic.)

Damien Broderick