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Health Care System Collapse Predicted
'Every year now, pundits have predicted the collapse of the U.S. health care system.(1-4) One of these pundits is Tommy Thompson, former governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of (HHS) Health and Human Services, who predicts collapse by 2013, mainly because health care costs are rising rapidly. Tommy Thompson says: "The first reason is that we spend about 16 percent of our GDP on health care...and by 2013 we'll double the expenditures; from $2 to $4 trillion -- from 16 percent to 20 percent of GDP."(1) Exactly when this predicted collapse will happen, I do not know. A collapse has been predicted every year for the past ten years, so I wouldn't hold my breath. One thing is for certain. This type of escalating cost cannot be sustained.'
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