<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 June 2011 04:26, Damien Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu">phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The US has lower life expectancy than almost every other rich country,<br>
while spending nearly twice as much per capita. Controlling for race<br>
doesn't change that much.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>In a societal sense, the fact that a larger fraction of the GDP is spent for health care services against comparable or inferior results signifies a less efficient solution, does it not?<br>
<br>That is, unless the idea that the "invisible hand" is always more efficient than planning is a religious dogma...<br><br>--<br>Stefano Vaj<br>