Did you notice that “if things are not i m m e d i a t e l y broken (er, fixed) then in ten years “If we do nothing to curb healthcare costs, by 2019 we will be spending one out of every $5 dollars on healthcare.”
$1.00 in $5.00?
Oh. Well, healthcare is now 18% of the US economy, and by 2019 it will “rise” to 20% of the nation’s economy.
And the problem with that is ......
Note they do not know how supply and demand etc work. Once the price gets high enough, the market will take care of the problems. Of course, the govt keeps meddling (Medicare, S-Chip etc), which precludes the market taking care of the crazy costs. Republicans do not help by agreeing there is a “crisis.”