I’m sorry, but even I hadn’t ever heard a number this high.
“Health Care Spending for U.S. May Double to $4 Trillion by 2015“
I have to actively keep myself from only talking about healthcare as a futurist. The amount of money it represents is truly astonomical, in the sense that it’s nearly impossible to understand without metaphors and hyperboles. But it could be even more crippling to the economy than we thought.
Already we in America are spending more money than anyone else, while getting around the 16th best outcomes. (I’ll let you do your own Google search on this, there’s overwhelming data.) But if we up the ante to FOUR TRILLION?
We. Cannot. Continue. On. That. Path.
On the other hand, for four trillion a year, there should be some pretty good jobs, and hopefully some clever new technologies. I wonder what that will bring.
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