Others can wade through the rest of the data and the methodology in the report. The salient charts are these:
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The first chart is about money spent on health care; the second is about results.
Well, at least we're number one in something. USA!! USA!! USA!!
As long as any attempts to fix the mess are characterized as killing grandma, we won't get very far. On the other hand, maybe teabaggers have shown us the way: as it is with tax cuts, which pay for themselves, all we need to do is stop paying so much for health care (I suggest continuing what's been done so far: stop paying doctors and hospitals altogether) and the problems will fix themselves.
