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Opinion: We spend about half of our federal tax dollars on healthcare. That's ridiculous.

By USA Today  
   September 16, 2019

As presidential hopefuls debate how much more money to pour into our broken system, they should consider how much we already spend. In a new report out Monday, my Johns Hopkins colleagues and I found that nearly half of our federal tax dollars are being spent on health care. Bear with me because I know these are a lot of numbers. But let’s add it up. 

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