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Considerations on cost disease

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    As promised, this is a selection from my "top 10" of The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf's "Top 100 or more fantastic articles" of 2017. It's a meaty dissection of the question, 'why are citizens of...

    As promised, this is a selection from my "top 10" of The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf's "Top 100 or more fantastic articles" of 2017.

    It's a meaty dissection of the question, 'why are citizens of the U.S. paying so much for so little?', compared to historical prices and what our compatriots around the world pay.

    There are few answers available, but the article lays the problem out very clearly - U.S. services like health care, education, and public works cost up to 20x what they do in other developed nations, and it's not the people who provide the services who are reaping the gains.

    Feel free to add your $0.02.