Comments on: Are We Headed Toward Bankruptcy? http://healthblog.ncpa.org/are-we-headed-toward-bankruptcy/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Mon, 21 May 2012 13:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ken http://healthblog.ncpa.org/are-we-headed-toward-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-48266 Ken Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:24:11 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6786#comment-48266 The answer to your question is: "yes." The answer to your question is: “yes.”

]]> By: Devon Herrick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/are-we-headed-toward-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-48265 Devon Herrick Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:17:35 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6786#comment-48265 Many physicians are so disenchanted with medicine they no longer advise their children to become doctors. This is a mistake. Baby Boomers especially should advise their kids (and grand kids) to become doctors, nurses, radiology technicians, physical therapists and other allied health professionals. The reason? Without real reform, health care spending will grow to become the dominant portion of our economy. Anyone who wants a job by mid-century better have medical-related training because health expenditure will have crowded out other forms of consumption. Thus health care will be the only job in town! Many physicians are so disenchanted with medicine they no longer advise their children to become doctors. This is a mistake. Baby Boomers especially should advise their kids (and grand kids) to become doctors, nurses, radiology technicians, physical therapists and other allied health professionals.

The reason? Without real reform, health care spending will grow to become the dominant portion of our economy. Anyone who wants a job by mid-century better have medical-related training because health expenditure will have crowded out other forms of consumption. Thus health care will be the only job in town!

]]> By: Juan O'Malley http://healthblog.ncpa.org/are-we-headed-toward-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-48263 Juan O'Malley Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6786#comment-48263 By 2019, almost a quarter (24.5%) of the gross national income will be spent by the government? Can that be true? That idea is so offensive to the notion of free markets and democracy, I can't reconcile how we can still claim to be the world’s greatest economy when the government spends a quarter of the nation's GDP. It is disgusting that 535 people in Congress (about 1/600,000th of the population) can so recklessly spend the income produced by more than 300 million Americans. By 2019, almost a quarter (24.5%) of the gross national income will be spent by the government? Can that be true?

That idea is so offensive to the notion of free markets and democracy, I can’t reconcile how we can still claim to be the world’s greatest economy when the government spends a quarter of the nation’s GDP.

It is disgusting that 535 people in Congress (about 1/600,000th of the population) can so recklessly spend the income produced by more than 300 million Americans.

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