Sound Bites
2010
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Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution,
CAP health care press call, 3-11-2010, on health care spending
(00:35)
Growing health care spending will boost total federal health care spending to extremely high levels. So much so, that projected increases in health care spending account for more than all the projected growth in federal total government spending that are contained in this bill are not only vital for the reform of the health care system, they are vital for the long term economic health of the nation.
2010
Growing health care spending will boost total federal health care spending to extremely high levels. So much so, that projected increases in health care spending account for more than all the projected growth in federal total government spending that are contained in this bill are not only vital for the reform of the health care system, they are vital for the long term economic health of the nation.
