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Healthcare Burden Crosses an Unexpected Border
· New York time
People in China are spending nearly as much of their income on healthcare as Americans, CNBC reports. The comparison concerns the share of income, rather than equal cash spending or identical healthcare systems. That makes it a household-budget comparison: the burden matters relative to the resources available to meet it. Two very different settings can produce an unexpectedly similar claim on income. Medical expenses have apparently discovered international coordination, though they have chosen the least festive possible subject for their exchange program: how much room remains in the household budget afterward.
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