But it's interesting to see how cautious Obama is -- and rightly so, he has a mess to clean up and now may not be the time to start massive new spending programs.
So, for example, see yesterday's passage of a modest bill expanding medical insurance to low income children across America. The legislation will extend benefits to about 11,000,000 children and those benefits will be modest. But this is health care coverage for children who had none before.
In Canada health care coverage is assumed (maybe we need to change the mix of public/private but no one says end coverage). America is, perhaps, moving in that direction.
James Morton
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I know why this is considered (and described in your post) as a spending program.
But it is worth noting that such a program will significantly reduce expenditures in the long run.
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