Booting Earth Optimization System
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Fitted on total health spending (public and private) across countries, not on this line.
Health (non-Medicare/Medicaid) has no line-specific international benchmark. The only comparison, total health spending (public and private), covers far more than this line (this line is 2% of it), so its overspend ratio is not applied here.
The Optimal Budget Generator (OBG) uses a diminishing-returns framework to allocate spending across categories. Each budget category is modeled with a concave utility function — the first dollar spent on a category produces more welfare than the billionth dollar.
The marginal return of 0.00% means each additional dollar currently spent on Health (non-Medicare/Medicaid) produces 0.00 cents of welfare value. Categories with higher marginal returns are underfunded relative to their potential; those with lower returns are overfunded.
Federal spending is about $6.71T. Each category's optimal is an independent efficient-frontier estimate, not a fixed-budget reallocation of that total across all 18 categories. A category gets an optimal only when the international comparison measures that category itself.
See the Optimal Budget Generator paper for full methodology.
Generated 9/29/2026 · Optimitron OBG