Why Neither Party is Winning: The Search for a Better Healthcare Model

Just posted on FoxNews.com, including this discussion of healthcare in the context of the budget battles:

In addition, all attempts at projecting budget savings for programs such as health care suffer from a reversal of cause and effect. 

If people are sick, such programs will be expensive, no matter what some Beltway bean-counter might decree. So therefore, self-declared budget experts would be better advised focusing on ways to cure sickness, because if people were healthier, budget savings would come automatically.