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Why health care matters and the current debt does not


Abstract: All of the attention given to raising the debt ceiling this past summer might lead some to believe that spending by the federal government only recently became unsustainable. Hardly. We've been on this path a long time.

Keywords: Health care reform; Debt;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: The Regional Economist

Publication Date: 2011

Issue: Oct

Pages: 4-5