claim: the cost of "health care is now the single-biggest factor driving down" the federal budget deficit.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: feb 28, 2013 ... federal deficits and debt have been sharply higher under president obama, but  ... marked the largest deficit relative to the economy since the end of world war ii.  ... stem chiefly from an aging population and rising health-care costs, those ... the  recession battered the budget, driving down tax revenues and ...
evidence_2: funded by federal, provincial and territorial ... the canadian health care cost  drivers story: 1998 to 2008 . .... deficits and bringing debt loads down in the  1990s. ... with the baby boom cohort, canada's largest population group in recent  history, ... price inflation has also been a significant factor in the growth in  hospital.
evidence_3: jun 28, 2010 ... the recession battered the budget, driving down tax revenues and swelling  outlays ... those other policies may be less conspicuous now, because many  were ... as we learn more about how to slow health care cost growth without ...  not a significant factor behind the deficits we face in the coming decade.
evidence_4: jan 31, 2008 ... no other single factor will ... many of the same forces that drive the growth of  federal health care ... b most analysts agree that the most important factor driving  the ... as a result, health care spending is now a much larger proportion of ....  economists are fond of pointing out, effectively drives down the cost of.
evidence_5: major drivers of health care costs include: inappropriate utilization especially ...  spending is the single most important factor undermining the nation's ... the key  policy options most likely to achieve the greatest cost savings are those that: ... o  the federal government should use its purchasing power to negotiate the price of .