Health care is a superior good: as we have enough food to keep us going until next week we start to think about spending money on the health care that will get us to the next decade.

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That eventually it kept going up at three times the rate of inflation, we'd be spending all our money on health care.

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Faced with the possibility of spending all their money on health care and leaving nothing for their heirs, they might be tempted to transfer everything they own to their heirs at once, qualify for Medicaid, and move into a nursing home.

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She suggested that spending money on tackling rabies would have a tremendous health impact.

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One of the more troubling signs for Democrats, perhaps, is that liberal advocacy groups have been spending money on television ads targeting Democratic lawmakers on health care.

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Not only are residents often going without the crucial help they need, but the government could be spending taxpayer money on facilities that could endanger people's health, the report concluded.

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Better health costs your insurer money and that spending on you is a hidden form of income.

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NHS. He is also likely to signal that he intends to honour the prime minister's rash pledge before the last election to keep the money tap open until Britain's previously parsimonious spending on health more nearly matches the European average of between 8% and 8.9% of national income, depending on which measure is used.

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Why, when it comes to making a stand against spending, why does it come into veto of a bill that spends money on health insurance for children of low-income households?

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And the greatest danger of all, given that most education and health spending goes on pay, may be that much of the extra money provided as a result of the comprehensive spending review ends up in the wallets of the teaching and medical professions, without much in the way of service improvement to show for it.

ECONOMIST: Health and education

For instance, prominent members of the local government in the Maryland county where number-one ranked military contractor Lockheed Martin has its headquarters have called on the federal government to slash defense spending as a way of freeing up money for education, health care and the homeless.

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