"Spending more on health care sounds like it should improve health, but our study suggests that is not the case and social spending could be used to improve the health of everyone," says Dr. Daniel Dutton, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. "Relative to health care, we spend little on social services per person, so redistributing money to social services from health care is actually a small change in health care spending."
Health care costs are expanding in many developed countries like Canada, and governments are seeking ways to contain costs while maintaining a healthy population. Treating the social determinants of health like income, education, or social and physical living environments through spending on social services can help address the root causes of disease and poor health. However, health spending continues to make up the lion's share of spending.
[...] The commentary author suggests governments should allocate social spending fairly for both young and old to ensure that the younger generation is not being shortchanged.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180122104016.htm
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:51PM (1 child)
There is probably quite a bit of selection bias in that sample. What kind of people would seek to make that much money after they've already far exceeded the point of simply living in luxury?
Studies have shown that there is a diminishing return in increased happiness with increasing income and beyond a certain, not so high, point they stop being correlated.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:01PM
As for the continuing to seek making more money, what you say is for people not insane with greed. Some people never have enough and are compulsively driven to acquire more wealth -- and probably not by "earning" it but by figuring out how to game systems, exploit others, etc. Those people will continue.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.