Government covers over half of health care costs

More than half of health care costs are borne by government

h/t Ezra Klein via  Paul Krugman  If we want to be more effective in health care delivery we need to use the biggest wedge: government expenditures and controls.  And BTW - caps on victims of medical malpractice is an unjust way to do it.  And turning medical malpractice adjudications over to "experts" like doctors is undemocratic and untrustworthy.  Obama ought to rethink that sop to the right.