Suppose a country knows that its current total healthcare spending is $2.2 trillion but it does not know whether Total Product Curve 1 or Total Product Curve 2 represents its health production based on healthcare spending. Explain why it would be useful for a country’s policymakers to know which Total Product Curve represents its health production based on healthcare spending when they set health policy.
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