Why health care matters and the current debt does not

Brett W. Fawley and Luciana Juvenal

The Regional Economist, 2011, issue Oct, 4-5

Abstract: All of the attention given to raising the debt ceiling this past summer might lead some to believe that spending by the federal government only recently became unsustainable. Hardly. We've been on this path a long time.

Keywords: Health care reform; Debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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