The Spending Sickness Makes for Unhealthy Reform

The Spending Sickness Makes for Unhealthy Reform

Government at all levels now eats up twice the share of the national economy it consumed 60 years ago. Are the government services you receive twice as valuable?

That challenge should become the key question in the ongoing battle over Obamacare. Given the obvious tendency of government to spend more and more with no discernable benefit to the public, why should anyone expect a better result from a huge expansion of the federal role in medical care?

The numbers already tell a horrifying story about the reckless expansion of government....