To Spend or Not to Spend

Matthew Yglesias says:

Or to look at it another way, if Hillary Clinton's entire agenda were enacted, her climate change proposals would wind up doing more to improve public health than would her health care proposals.

Why? Well, for one reason, increasing spending on health care has almost no effect on health outcomes. So says Robin Hanson, and he advocates cutting health care spending in half to bring spending and outcomes in line.