Expensive Quote by Robert J. Gordon

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly…

— Kathleen Sebelius

“Many countries have state-dominated or state-run systems with little competition. Their historically lower costs and favorable mortality statistics have led some to advocate that…

— Michael E. Porter

The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth.

— Robert Sapolsky

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst…

— Noam Chomsky

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest…

— Chris Hadfield

“And although we are presently ranked first in the world in health-care spending, we are ranked thirty-seventh in overall health-system performance, according to the…

— David Perlmutter

“The United States, with the greatest ability and the weakest desire to finance a welfare state, winds up in the middle of the pack…

— William Voegeli

“Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.”

— Jennifer Block

“Per capita health care cost in the United States surpasses that of most other developed countries. Despite this, U.S. costs are rising at comparable…

— Michael E. Porter

“Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn’t it reasonable, therefore, for us…

— T. Colin Campbell

The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as…

— Hazel Henderson

“the U.S., also has the highest rates of suicide, drug abuse, murder, incarcerations, and other negative social factors. Our economy is based on fighting…

— Jim Marrs