Health Outcomes and Spending Levels: How Do They Relate? They Don't

Want To Improve Health Care?  Spend Less On It by Charles Kenny.  Bloomberg Business Week.  May 13, 2013.

(1)  According to a new study of Medicaid recipients in Oregon, increased health-care spending has ________________ impact on improving people's health.

(2)  What were some of the benefits of Medicaid expansion in Oregon?

(3)  What was not achieved by Medicaid expansion in Oregon?

(4)  How does health care expenditures and average lifespan compare in the United States, Chile, and Spain?

(5)  Measures that are most effective in raising a population's life expectancy ________________
___________________________.

(6)  What are some cheap interventions that produce dramatic results?

(7)  Obesity takes away ______________ years away from the world's population every year.

(8)  Using Cuba as an example explain how having less money to spend can result in better health outcomes?

(9)  What have been some of the positive impacts of the recession on U.S. health?

(10)  With lower __________ and ________, the U.S. might even surpass Spanish levels of life expectancy.

(11)  The U.S. needs to get more serious about ___________________________________.