Could healthcare as its own delivery system and economy be headed for a financial meltdown much in the way that the housing market went down in flames? By 2017, the portion of the GDP as the result of healthcare expenditures is expected to reach 20 per cent; that is, one-fifth of that number will be spent on healthcare by then. Lately, Barack Obama has been slightly more subdued in his recent offerings to offset the issues surrounding the “broken” system of healthcare financing. Is that because the issue of finding a way to fix this probably is finally starting to seem insurmountable? Or will he have to embrace the idea that inducing real change in healthcare financing may make him less popular, cutting short his current honeymoon with those who view healthcare as a right rather than a privilege? | LINK

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