What Makes Health Care So Expensive?

A great  infographic. A great stroke association would have numbers for stroke expenses and where US full recovery %s are as compared to the rest of the world. If we don't know where we are we can't improve it.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/what-makes-health-care-so-expensive/

In a great stroke association they would have hundreds of ideas to reduce that for stroke.
Simple diagnosis  with the tricorder possibly thru one of these 17 ways. That would mean no need for CT or MRI machines for stroke diagnosis and no neurologist on duty at all times. No need to setup all those complicated telemedicine connections.
And with some useful protocols from these 177 possibilities needing research   stopping the  neuronal cascade of death.
We would have much much less death and disability, shorter hospital stays, less need for therapists and PMR doctors.
This is all doable if we can only get the stroke associations off their asses.