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Why health care matters and the current debt does not

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  • Brett W. Fawley
  • Luciana Juvenal

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All of the attention given to raising the debt ceiling this past summer might lead some to believe that spending by the federal government only recently became unsustainable. Hardly. We've been on this path a long time.

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  • Brett W. Fawley & Luciana Juvenal, 2011. "Why health care matters and the current debt does not," The Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Oct, pages 4-5.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlre:y:2011:i:oct:p:4-5
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    Cited by:

    1. John T. Harvey, 2016. "An Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 61(2), pages 140-156, October.
    2. Eric Tymoigne, 2020. "Monetary Sovereignty: Nature, Implementation, and Implications," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(3), pages 49-71, September.
    3. Pavlina R. Tcherneva, 2019. "The High Costs of UBI are Not Financial: They are Real," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 45(2), pages 327-330, April.

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    Health care reform; Debt;

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