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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (46527)10/15/2010 9:41:56 PM
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Per capita would be perhaps the number one. Percentage of GDP or other measure of national production or income would be another, both because it shows the relative burden, and because richer costs tend to go up with GDP. Health care is not an inferior good, in fact costs probably go up with GDP at a faster rate than GDP, which would make health care a luxury good. I'd also look for measures of cost compared to what gets done, but that's harder to do (and would also tend to reward doing too much, doing stuff that doesn't really help, with a lower cost score).
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