alt Hacker NewsNearly 20% for healthcare causes some reservations -- considering how little we get for our money in America.
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pesus • yesterday at 3:21 AM
We spend about twice as much on average as other developed countries and get far far less in return.
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jgalt212 • yesterday at 1:10 AM
Yes, that stat is spirit crushing.
It used to be the other way round.. 9 for health and 20 for finance, as recently as 2020
More concerning to me are that these visualizations are not so trivial to find. Here's one
https://www.bea.gov/system/files/gdp1q25-3rd-chart-03_0.png
Health care is growing but not as much as real estate