[lbo-talk] Re: Americans pay more for health care but receive less in return

[Marta Russell]

>For some reason I didn't get this as email.
>
>All I meant by affordable was in the macro
>sense.  We're paying for it, so it's affordable.
>Under current trends, if it went to, oh, 25
>percent of GDP, we would revise our view of
>'affordability.'
>

Do you mean that would justify rationing HC more than it is already?

Isn't this what the American Enterprise Institute says in its 
arguments against Medicaid and Medicare -- that public healthcare is 
not sustainable, that it will grow and eat up all the budget.  Funny 
they don't see the military that way.

Marta
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