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mikeash on March 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in Fra...

This PDF shows the 65+ demographic as accounting for 35.6% of health expenditures in 2004:

https://www.cms.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/2004-...

It seems highly unlikely that it would change so drastically in just 8 years. Where does your 85% figure come from?

ktizo on March 4, 2012 [–]

Was probably found from the same source that I used when researching the worrying fact that, as it turns out, 78.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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