President Obama: Offset Spending Rise by Reducing Health Costs
March 24, 2009 by Ethan Kendrick
Filed under HP_Featured, Health
In his primetime press conference this evening, President Obama focused on health care again, saying that an “efficient health care system that controls costs” is key to “bring our deficit down in the long run.” The comments came after the president stated earlier this month that “fixing what’s wrong with our health care system is no longer just a moral imperative, but a fiscal imperative” and that it was impossible to “grow our economy without tackling the skyrocketing cost of healthcare.”
Tonight, CNN’s Ed Henry asked President Obama, “do you worry though, that your daughters – not to mention the next president, will be inheriting an even bigger fiscal mess if the spending goes out of control?”
President Obama responded, “Of course I do, Ed, which is why we’re doing everything we can to reduce that deficit… What we have to do is to bend the curve on these deficit projections and the best way for us to do that is to reduce health care costs. That’s not just my opinion, that’s the opinion of almost every single person who has looked at our long term fiscal situation.”
The president added that the way forward in reducing health care costs would require for the county to “invest in health information technologies” and in “preventive care.”
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