On odd days, my bottom line is that material wellbeing since 1979 has grown at 0.5% per year for America’s poor, compared to 4% per year for America’s rich (and 6% per year for its super-rich). This is because most of the expansion is not the equivalent of&nbsp;a greater income for America’s poor in any reasonable sense, and because America gets relatively little value for its health-care financing.
坦白说，我对政府医疗融资计划的怎张和不平等性之间的关系的看法是互相矛盾的。一方面，我的基本观点是1979年以来，美国穷人实际福利年增长率为0.5%，而美国富人为4%（超级富人更是高达6%）。这是因为扩张的大部分并不等同于美国穷人收入的增加，也因为美国的医疗融资价值相对低下。