February 27, 2005

Gov't. paying half of all health care $$$

For those worried about a single-payer health care system introducing too much big government into health care -- wake up -- it's already happening.

A report in Health Affairs this week projects that public programs will pay for half of total health care costs by 2014. Much of that will be rung up to the new Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Posted by schwitz at February 27, 2005 12:18 PM
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