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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/business/slowdown-in-rise-of-health-care-costs-may-persist.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1368015220-dbH/6LXDiR17SSVANZi/PA&
WASHINGTON One of the economic mysteries of the last few years has been the bigger-than-expected slowdown in health spending, a trend that promises to bolster wages and help close the wide federal deficit over the long term but only if it persists.
Major new studies from researchers at Harvard University, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and elsewhere have concurred that at least some of the slowdown is unrelated to the recession, and might persist as the economy recovers. David M. Cutler, the Harvard health economist and former Obama adviser, estimates that, given the dynamics of the slowdown, economists might be overestimating public health spending over the next decade by as much as $770 billion.
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Thank you Obama, thank you Democrats, thank you liberals.
Conservatives, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Libertartians, thanks for nothing. You were no help at all. Your hostility to the sick and the poor and the elderly shocks most Americans.
And your predictions of skyrocketing costs was baloney. Weren't you guys already wrong enough on WMD in Iraq, or the recession that was supposed to follow Clinton's tax increases in the 1990s? You have to continue being wrong on other issues too?
Tell you what, Conservatives. Just let us know what will happen in the future so we can prepare for the exact opposite thing happening in future.
WASHINGTON One of the economic mysteries of the last few years has been the bigger-than-expected slowdown in health spending, a trend that promises to bolster wages and help close the wide federal deficit over the long term but only if it persists.
Major new studies from researchers at Harvard University, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and elsewhere have concurred that at least some of the slowdown is unrelated to the recession, and might persist as the economy recovers. David M. Cutler, the Harvard health economist and former Obama adviser, estimates that, given the dynamics of the slowdown, economists might be overestimating public health spending over the next decade by as much as $770 billion.
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Thank you Obama, thank you Democrats, thank you liberals.
Conservatives, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Libertartians, thanks for nothing. You were no help at all. Your hostility to the sick and the poor and the elderly shocks most Americans.
And your predictions of skyrocketing costs was baloney. Weren't you guys already wrong enough on WMD in Iraq, or the recession that was supposed to follow Clinton's tax increases in the 1990s? You have to continue being wrong on other issues too?
Tell you what, Conservatives. Just let us know what will happen in the future so we can prepare for the exact opposite thing happening in future.