A recent article in the New York Times, projects increasing problems with federal budget deficits over the next several decades, problems caused in no small part by the likelihood of increased health expenditures.
More evidence of the importance of overcoming partisanship. Whether you are a liberal or conservative, you have to recognize that Medicare and Medicaid expenditures threaten our fiscal future. We ought to be able to find a way to control these expenditures without throwing poor and unhealthy people under the proverbial bus. That is, if we can still afford buses!
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