Follow this link to the request to take action to help finish the job.

Follow this link to the USA Today story Medical expenses have ‘very steep rate of growth’

I followed the suggested action and put the following comment on the Worcester T & G comment board for a news story about health care reform:

Health care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person — and is now projected to nearly double by 2019.

So the government’s spending of $1 trillion over ten years to get some control of health care spending seems a lot smaller when you consider that we are already on a path to spend $25 trillion to $50 trillion over the next 10 years on health care.

When anybody touts a single number with the intention of getting you to gasp at how large it is, you always have to ask, ‘Compared to what?’