I was in Harrisburg, PA lecturing this weekend.  I received the USA Today newspaper on Friday May 16, 2014 and on page 5A there was an article titled, “Life Expectancy Up; Japanese Females Living Longest of All.”   (The chart on the left was in this article.) The article quoted a World Health Organization annual report which was released last Thursday. With the amount of money spent on health care, you would think that the U.S. should be, at least, one of the top ten countries for life expectancy.  You would think wrong. Americans spend over 18% of our gross national … Continue reading First in Spending