health care costs per capita, graphed against life expectancy. the united states is pulling really very high numbers in one of these!

sadly, it's high health care costs.

as far as life expectancy goes, we're slightly ahead of cuba. which spends less than we do by at least one possibly two orders of magnitude.



(hat tip to the old hippie, whose blog i got to via avedon carol's sideshow.)

(edited to add: sorry about the ugliness of the graph; i had to mess with the size of it to get it to fit.)