Where are Healthcare Costs Rising the Fastest?

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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thre...are_healt.html

[Dr T Non-Fan]

without looking, I'm guessing where they are cheapest.

[ADoubleDot]

Oh, I'm a retard. I guessed Wisconsin. Not that kind of party.

[campbell]

One can also guess where there's a lot of economic growth, and thus more wealth to throw at healthcare.

[silverfox]

I guessed prescription meds. I also lost this game, but the question was pretty unclear.

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Originally Posted by campbell

One can also guess where there's a lot of economic growth, and thus more wealth to throw at healthcare.

Sure, and if the base is smaller it should grow faster, and aging population blah blah blah.

I do hope that it shows that skyrocketing health care costs exist in single payer as well.

[E. Blackadder]

It's rising fastest where income is becoming first world.

[FormLetter]

It probably rises fastest in areas where the notion that "nobody here should go without any kind of care" gets adopted the fastest.

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Originally Posted by E. Blackadder

It's rising fastest where income is becoming first world.

Norway, Australia, The Netherlands, and the UK both have high per capita income, why are they higher then the US? Why are France, New Zealand, and Belgium basically the same?