{"id":2060,"date":"2005-07-13T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/the-cost-of-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T10:54:11","slug":"the-cost-of-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/the-cost-of-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"the cost of healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

healthcare is a problem in this country, but i haven’t had the time or inclination to dig into it much… so i bounce thoughts off the surface every once in a while, and today i have a number to hang a thought on.<\/p>\n

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Health Spending In The United States And The Rest Of The Industrialized World<\/a> [health affairs, july\/august 2005]<\/div>\n

U.S. citizens spent $5,267 per capita for health care in 2002\u201453 percent more than any other country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

so, with a 40-hour week and a 50-week year, there’s 2000 hours in a working american’s life (for now i’m going to ignore non-working americans even though they count as “capita”). $5267\/2000 = $2.63 per hour for health care (if you put in the rest of the “capita” it’s higher, of course).<\/p>\n

this isn’t going to be quite fair, but with the federal minimum wage at $5.15 per hour, oddly enough, that $2.63 works out to just a shade over half (51.1%) of the minimum-wage. the reality is probably much simpler – real minimum-wage workers don’t get health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

healthcare is a problem in this country, but i haven’t had the time or inclination to dig into it much… so i bounce thoughts off the surface every once in a while, and today i have a number to hang a thought on. Health Spending In The United States And The Rest Of The Industrialized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}