Wars and Health Care Reform Should Both Be Paid For

• By Stan Collender
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• Oct. 27, 2009, Midnight

The Washington Post ran a budget-related editorial on Saturday (“A critical question”) that attempted to explain why it insists that health care reform not increase the deficit even though it doesn’t believe that spending for activities in Iraq and Afghanistan have to be offset. The Post’s arguments weren’t just unconvincing, they also don’t make any sense.