The graphic says it comes from “Health Care Costs: A Primer” from the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. That is online, and I couldn’t find this data there.https://www.kff.org/report-section/health-care-costs-a-primer-2012-report/ …
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The military has a memorable, vivid metaphor for this: the tooth-to-tail ratio. Caudal hypertrophy—a rapidly growing tail, which also afflicts universities, for instance—must be the main cause of cost disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-to-tail_ratio …
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I’m not really a good person to ask… but I’d suggest working through an introductory textbook, and consulting online videos and the Wikipedia whenever you get stuck
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Maybe some of it is in FTE? Eg healthcare professionals spend more time keeping logs.
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Good point… wouldn’t explain the cost explosion, though?
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Extra insight into the previously posted graph from
@Meaningness. I especially appreciate the introduction of the "tooth-to-tail ratio" which I was previously unfamiliar with.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/950396824061292544 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I occasional see similar comments about college costs, pointing toward an explosion of administrators - wait, I see you mention that below. I've always wanted to see some graphs or explanations of how that one has developed, too.
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