Re: American health costs as GDP percentage are bogus
- From: Les Cargill <lcargill99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:35:10 -0400
Michael Coburn wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:09:59 -0400, Les Cargill wrote:
Michael Coburn wrote:If we were to examine the American GDP as compared to France or GermanyMilitary spending is only 7.5% of GDP. It also has a remarkably high
or Japan we would find that the American GDP is full of military
expense that the other countries do not suffer. And this additional
expense SWELLS the American per capita GDP to make it much larger than
it will have been in the more "sane" nations on the planet. So when
we compare American Medical costs with other nations using percentage
of GDP we are not comparing apples to apples. In order to compare
apples to apples in regard to the productive economy and social welfare
we must remove the GDP bloat that results for American military
spending. If that is done then we have a more accurate apples to
apples comparison. And in that comparison we see that American health
care costs as a percentage of the productive economy are much higher
then that which is implied by current GDP comparisons.
level of return to the general economy - it "creates" highly
middle-class jobs.
So lets dig some holes and fill em back up.
Now you are starting to sound like Reagan.
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Les Cargill
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