Thread: I've figured out how to make socialized Medicine work in the US
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Old 07-22-2009, 07:23 PM  
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
So if I read that correctly it is saying that the average cost per person is higher for smokers, but when you group smokers into one group and non-smokers into another it shows that the non-smokers end up costing more total dollars.

Is that correct?

If so couldn't that simply be because there are more non-smokers than smokers? Sure all of the smokers combined cost less than all of the non-smokers combined, but what is the difference in population size?

Hey, he has a graph that he found on the internets. He is obviously right. The only thing that could be more compelling is if he found a pie chart.
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