Budget Syndrome: The Real Costs of Cutting Healthcare
834 views · Published 18 June 2009 · 4:22 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: New America · 2009 · Nonprofits & Activism
Since Governor Schwarzenegger insists he will not raise taxes, programs such as Healthy Families are still on the chopping block putting health insurance for a million children and their families at risk. In this informative and engaging video, Micah Weinberg, Senior Research Fellow at The New America Foundation, calls out this sort of thinking a Budget Syndrome. A major symptom of this condition is an obsessive focus on taxes and spending. Its side effects include blindness to the true impact of cutting healthcare spending on our pocketbooks, on our economy, and on our lives.
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