Graph of "Life expectancy vs. health expenditure From 1970 to 2018" for wealthy countries. All countries follow a similar trend until around 1980 when US starts lagging behind in life expectancy and excelling at health expenditure per capita. I imposed a large picture of Reagan right around 1981.
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