It is thought that the United States is considered to be on the “flat of the curve” because although the United States has come a long way in improving the healthcare in the United States that there has not been enough done to justify the high costs of the healthcare that it is providing to its citizens. Most citizens in the United States can’t even afford health insurance therefore they are not going to the doctor as they should to maintain their health and wellness. It is going to be imperative to the United States as a country to correct this current trend to come out with more of a positive outlook. In an article that I read on Flat of the curve Medicine it talked about how certain things could still affect healthcare even after everyone had been afforded the same medical (healthcare) opportunities. This article stated Industrial countries have been spending a rising share of their economic resources on healthcare. From 1960 to 2004 healthcare expenditure (HCE) of OECD countries increased from 3.8 percent of GDP on average to 8.9 percent. Over the same period, health has improved, with average life expectancy at birth increasing from 68.4 to 78.5 years. However, this increase has lowered recently. In the United States, it has been 0.19 percent per annum between 1980 and 2004, down from 0.3 between 1960 and 1980. Since HCE continued to grow at a rate of 7.7percent between 1980 and 2004, this was often interpreted as evidence of decreasing marginal returns raising the question of why citizens and governments failed to reallocate resources away from medicine. However, this conclusion may be premature on at least two accounts. The first derives from the production of health" concept (Grossman [1972]), which emphasizes nonmedical inputs, notably individuals' own efforts at maintaining health. Specifically, Zweifel et al. [2009, ch.4] argue that possibly individuals