http://www.newgroundtech.com Sowing seeds of growth Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:39:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.newgroundtech.com/2009/12/source-of-healthcare-price-increases/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=source-of-healthcare-price-increases http://www.newgroundtech.com/2009/12/source-of-healthcare-price-increases/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:09:52 +0000 Jim http://www.newgroundtech.com/?p=340 This chart illustrates the decline in personal responsibility for healthcare costs over the last 50 years.  Now I have to find the best source for healthcare cost increases over the same time period, but I would guess the correlation between these two factors will be quite high.  It’s what always happens when people can use “OPM” – other people’s money – to purchase anything for themselves.    Note: This chart was created by Dan Mitchell, using data obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ national health expenditures data website and originally posted at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com.

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