Fair warning: If you don't want to hear another one of my rants about wellness, you might wanna ship this week's blog right now.
A new international study of health care effectiveness found, among other things, that South Koreans, on average, live longer than Americans (and at least 30 other countries), despite spending very little on health care costs as a percentage of gross domestic product.
But that spending appears to be an arbitrary barometer. In fact, the thrust of the study appears to dispel the conventional wisdom of getting what you pay for – at least when it comes to health care spending.
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