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The National Journal reports that the jobs and the deficit is likely to dominate today night presidential debate, but the most important deficit in the absence of leadership candidates to unsustainable health care spending, not the federal budget. But before you blame Governor Romney and President Obama, first look in the mirror: Politicians do not just need the voters about the victim to lower health care costs, because we would vote them out of office if they did.

Today's 90-minute debate on domestic issues only. The first 45 minutes on the economy to be followed by 15-minute segments on health care, the role of the state and over. But even though his health is only 15 minutes to get fame, you can not really talk about the other issues without health spending. Because when you solve the health care spending problem, you solve the deficit and improve the economy. And controlling health expenditure see basic questions, such as the candidates and the general public, the government's role and approaches to regulation. Problem is that we will not allow the voter to either President Obama or Governor Romney to us. The truth about health issues because we do not know what they have to say, although we lament the lack of plain language of politicians

Because that's what an honest answer to the question: "What should the United States do to health care costs and access?" would sound like:

"The simple fact is that we can not afford our health care system. It is too expensive, even though there are millions of us leaving without health insurance. My opponent and I disagree on how best to reduce spending, but it is not a contradiction that health spending come down soon, by a large crowd, and in a way that none of us like.

Here's why: health care spending is the largest single cause of our exploding budget deficit and debt. We can not balance the budget without, how much we spend on Medicare and Medicaid. As our population ages, is Medicare, the. More and more people, even if we are less young people they support with their taxes Yes, all of us pay into Medicare during our lifetime, but much more from him in return, as we put into it.

An average-wage worker pays $ 60,000 in Medicare in their working years, but will receive $ 170,000 in benefits, if a man, $ 188,000, when a woman. The rest comes from our adult children, but there is not enough of them to pay for the many millions of baby boomers' I'm not talking about my generation without massive tax increases on them. Or we can borrow the money to throw us into more debt, debt that will be passed on to our children.

Our health care system provides excellent support for many of us, and we are the global leader in medical progress and innovation. But millions of us do not get a good access to care. Forty-six million have no health insurance. And we know that people without health insurance delay always requires care, and many of them suffer from more serious diseases or die from diseases that could have been prevented with better access. And the rest of us end up paying for their care. One thing that we have both together (pointing to the other candidates), is that we both signed cover laws for most Americans, remain formidable in Massachusetts and at the national level through Obamacare, but we and our country, whether national divides Law should be implemented, improved, or repealed, and if canceled, what would replace them.