If we want to understand the true burden of health entitlements, we need to account for not only what we spent on them directly, but also the fair share of net interest payments on the national debt attributable to these same entitlements.
What we have is an obligation to provide the people who are at the lowest part of the socioeconomic spectrum a base line safety net of fair and reasonable care.
He said he likes the idea of money following the person and thinks that it would be a more fair and open way of funding the safety net health care program.