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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

GOPDD: Obama: National Debt Problem ‘Is Very Simple’: ‘We Use A Lot of Healthcare’

By Jen - Feb 24, 2016

(Via CNS News) “The real problem that we have when it comes to debt is very simple,” President Obama told the nation’s governors on Monday. “It is that our population’s getting older, and we use a lot of health care.
“And health care — we spend more for less, frankly, than most other advanced nations, partly because we do a lot of emergency room care. Some of it is because we, you know, overprescribe, we over-test. Some of it is we drive innovation and technology, and people always want the best stuff, but that costs money.