Health Care Costs and Universal Care

This is a good piece of journalism about universal care and health care costs. Some nice data:

Total spending on Health as a percentage of GDP
Total spending on Health as a percentage of GDP

and this

Health Expenditures. Total expenditure on health in 2007, as a percentage of GDP.
Health Expenditures. Total expenditure on health in 2007, as a percentage of GDP.

US economy declined less in 2nd Quarter 2009

The US economy declined less in the second quarter. This is a very nice grafic.

quarter-to-quarter-growth-in-real-GDP-2005-2009_Q2
quarter-to-quarter-growth-in-real-GDP-2005-2009_Q2

Real gross domestic product (GDP) declined 1.0 percent in the second quarter of 2009 after declining 6.4 percent in the first quarter, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Details.