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What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care

We speculate that the nature of our health care system—specifically, its reliance on unregulated fee-for-service and specialty care—may explain both the increased spending and the relative deterioration in survival that we observed. If so, meaningful reform may not only save money over the long term, it may also save lives.

We may not live long, but dammit at least we’re not socialists.