{"id":5900,"date":"2010-04-08T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:45:31","slug":"graphs-of-the-day-health-spending-health-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5900","title":{"rendered":"graphs of the day: health spending, health outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total proportion of our economy devoted to health care has increased from 7 percent in 1972 to 16 percent in 2006:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/dc\/Health_costs_USA_GDP.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Yet the proportion of Americans who consider their own health to be &#8220;excellent&#8221; is slightly lower than it was in 1972:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/health.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think the reason might be an aging population, but no dice. When you look at only people between the ages of 18 and 40, their self-reported health situation actually declines:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/health2.JPG\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total proportion of our economy devoted to health care has increased from 7 percent in 1972 to 16 percent in 2006: Yet the proportion of Americans who consider their own health to be &#8220;excellent&#8221; is slightly lower than it was in 1972: You&#8217;d think the reason might be an aging population, but no dice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}