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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> <br><b>…</b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Per capita the US spends $14,885 per capita on healthcare each year and has a life expectancy of 79.6 years, Albania spends $414 per capita on healthcare each year and has a life expectancy of 80 years. S</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>pike, you certainly haven't had time to study those 3 lists that I posted<span class=gmaildefault>,</span> but I'd really like it if you would and then tell me what solution you have that would get the US out of such an <u>absurd situation</u>. …. J<span class=gmaildefault>ohn K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>OK. Let’s send our medical students to Albania, and do it their way.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>However, I rather suspect they don’t do much for sick people in Albania. Perhaps their life expectancy numbers look good because they have fewer teenage gangsters 86ing each other and fewer fentanyl fatalities compared to the USA.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style='margin-top:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0><thead><tr><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Country</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Life Expectancy (2025/26 Est.)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Health Spending per Capita (Nominal)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Efficiency Note</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></thead><tr><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>United States</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~79.6 Years</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~$14,885</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The Baseline</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Albania</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~80.0 Years</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~$414</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Absolute lowest spender that beats the U.S.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Costa Rica</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~81.2 Years</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~$979</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Most famous "efficiency leader" (OECD member).</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Panama</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~80.0 Years</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~$1,472</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>High efficiency in Central America.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Chile</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~81.5 Years</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>~$1,547</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Highest life expectancy in South America.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> 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