Youall know about this already, but I wanted to post this plot of health-care expenditure and life expectancy (click on the graph to see a larger version):
A somewhat misleading (in my opinion) presentation of these numbers has been floating around on the web recently, and so I wanted to post this cleaner graph. (The area of the circle for each country is proportional to the number of doctor visits per person; I don’t know that this information is so crucial but I included it, as it was on the original graph that I’ve modified.)
See here for background.