Root of the budget deficit: Health Care

Brooks Bemoans the Lack of a Free Lunch for Representative Ryan | Beat the Press

The third belief is contradicted by the experience of the dozens of countries who have comparable quality health care systems to the United States and pay less than half as much per person. Most, if not all, of them rely less on co-payments and other patient contributions than the United States. It is also worth noting that if the United States had the same per person health care costs as any other wealthy country, it would be looking at huge budget surpluses rather than deficits.

If we fix health care, the budget will take care of itself.

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