Wednesday, July 18, 2012
"6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok"
Few, if any, elected officials can see past the next election.
That, and the associated pandering for campaign money and votes, has created quite a mess...
That, and the associated pandering for campaign money and votes, has created quite a mess...
James Pethokoukis posts them on the American Enterprise Institute website:
"The original purpose of Medicaid was to provide improved healthcare access for poor people, while not turning the safety net into a trap. Under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Medicaid will be greatly exapnded beyond what Congress originally intended.
In fact, as these charts show, it has already expanded beyond what Congress surely originally envisioned and, in the process, has created a terrible fiscal problem for the United States."