Budget Focuses More On Economy Than Health Reform
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In his fiscal 2011 budget proposal to Congress this morning, President Obama focused mostly on the need to bolster the economy. Can the economy be improved — in either the short or the long term — without also reforming the nation’s health care system? How closely are they related, and what and how much needs to be done on health care to positively affect the economy? Here is what Obama wrote in his budget proposal: “Because even the best-trained workers in the world can’t compete if our businesses are saddled with rapidly increasing health-care costs, we’re fighting to reform our Nation’s broken health insurance system and relieve this unsustainable burden. My Budget…
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