Obamacare has made the debt crisis worse

Published January 24, 2012 5:00am ET



Third of a five-part series. Days after signing the $787 billion economic stimulus package into law in February 2009, President Obama hosted a fiscal responsibility summit at the White House.

It was at the event that then-budget director Peter Orszag declared: “Health care reform is entitlement reform.”

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