The Big Debt Driver: Rising Health Care Costs, Not Medicare
This is a cross-post from The Huffington Post by Diane Archer, the former president of the Medicare Rights Center.
As both our national debt and health care costs continue to swell, America's CEOs and other "influentials" have targeted Medicare as a key culprit and insist that Congress cut Medicare spending in the current deficit discussions. In truth, we do not have a "Medicare problem" in this country; we have a big problem with rising health care costs.
