VIDEO: Budget Syndrome: The Real Costs of Cutting Healthcare

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.