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The U.S. is currently spending 18 percent of its GDP on health. As the economy is contracting, the cost of health care inflation, and expanding health insurance proposed by Barack Obama and Congress, the share of GDP spent on health care will soon exceed 22 percent. As our population ages, the proportion of GDP, consumption can easily grow to 25 percent (finance.yahoo.com).

All this is quite expensive is bad for our health. Never mind that the American public is buying more expensive than health care. Through the displacement of time and money that could be devoted to other things than work on ...