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@yevheniyc yevheniyc commented Aug 23, 2025

This PR fixes corrupted dollar sign formatting in the healthcare cost examples that were preventing proper display.

The Issue

The chapter 4 examples had malformed dollar amounts that wouldn't render correctly:

Before:
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Problems:

  • Parenthetical format was awkward to read
  • Dollar signs not properly escaped for markdown
  • "hospitalstays" was missing a space

The Fix

After:
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Improvements

  1. Technical Fix - Properly escaped dollar signs ($) for correct markdown rendering
  2. Better Readability - Changed from parenthetical format to "costs " which flows more naturally
  3. Consistency - All dollar amounts now display uniformly
  4. Spacing Fix - Corrected "hospitalstays" to "hospital stays"
  5. Maintained Impact - Preserves the powerful economic critique while fixing display issues

Context

This appears in "The Cancer Boom" section where the argument is that GDP perversely treats illness as economic good news. The dollar amounts needed to display correctly to show the shocking scale of how healthcare costs boost GDP metrics.

Small but important fix for professional presentation of key data.

- Replace malformed parenthetical dollar amounts with properly escaped dollar signs
- Change from '(,000)' format to 'costs \,000' for better readability
- Fix all healthcare cost examples: diagnostic tests, surgery, chemo, hospital stays, meds
- Ensure proper markdown rendering of currency symbols
- Improve sentence flow while maintaining the economic critique impact
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