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		staringback on March 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billi... > We're terribly inefficient with its social spending because have politics is so adversarial and nobody is interested in doing any due diligence. And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the United States having a very unhealthy population and pays doctors the highest salaries in the world.

mlrtime on March 20, 2024 | [–]

8% of healthcare spending is salaries, is that your smoking gun?

linehedonist on March 21, 2024 | | [–]

That number seems impossible on its face. Healthcare spending presumably consists of salaries and overhead, and I can’t imagine overhead is 92% of all spending.

chaorace on March 20, 2024 | [–]

Chicken, meet egg.

tmnvix on March 20, 2024 | [–]

I ordered one of each on Amazon. I'll let you know...

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