"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: 3, Informative) by meustrus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:06PM (2 children)
Hear, hear. Spending all your military budget on pie-in-the-sky next-gen technology is (part of) how the Nazis lost WW2 while inventing ballistic missiles and getting most of the way to the atomic bomb. Which ended up being used against its ally.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:24AM (1 child)
The most advanced thing that Heisenberg and his guys had looked like tinker toys. [google.com]
The Nazis Were Nowhere Near Making An Atomic Bomb [acs.org] image [acs.org]
There's a stage play called "Copenhagen" which proposes the notion that he was purposely thwarting the Nazi effort.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:58PM
Those uranium cubes would make an awesome set piece to a Bond villain's lair.
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