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Return on investment for lobbying is 200000%. (Not a typo.)

In a previous post, I estimated that the USA pays an unneeded $4,000 per person per year on healthcare. Using my rule-of-thumb that there’s 1/3 of a billion people in the USA, that amounts to $1,333 billion per year in excess…

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