The country faces an enormous deficit in the long-term future if we never fix our health care system. This is easy to show to those who know arithmetic. Of course, if you don't like Social Security, then you blame the huge projected deficits on "the growth in spending for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid." I personally attribute the problem to the growing cost of government computers, Medicare and Medicaid. That's pretty much as accurate as including Social Security in the list.
--Dean Baker
