{"id":236257,"date":"2010-01-27T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-deficit-healthcare-reform-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-27T09:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:10:58","slug":"look-how-much-better-the-deficit-would-look-if-we-only-solved-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236257","title":{"rendered":"Look How Much Better The Deficit Would Look If We Only Solved Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday’s CBO announcement of a $1.35 trillion deficit and growing is all the more frustrating in light of health care’s demise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A fun interactive chart<\/a> from the Center for Economic and Policy Research lets you compare their estimated budget effect of health care reform — or, hypothetically, a health care system as efficient as others around the world.<\/p>\n

With a low cost health care system (blue) the deficit doesn’t look too bad.<\/p>\n

If we had as efficient a system as Canada (red), even with 2.5 years extra life expectancy, we would run a budget surplus.<\/p>\n

As is, the budget is on track to skyrocket<\/a> (gold).<\/p>\n

(via Simone Baribeau<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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