
65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?
Freakonomics, M.D.
How Hospitals Changed During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Hospitals changed and became an industry, one that now accounts for a third of all healthcare spending in the US. Cities that had higher mortality rates from the flu expanded hospital capacity to a greater extent than cities that didn't. But again, that effect was much stronger in cities where the population had been more negatively affected by the 1918 flu pandemic.
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