The Federal government spends over twice as much on healthcare as it does on defense, yet there appears to be no House of Representatives Committee on healthcare. In the Senate, health is lumped in with education, labor, and pensions. Perhaps there should be committees in both houses focusing just on healthcare. Perhaps there there should be a special bipartisan commission on healthcare. This goes beyond healthcare costs, to matters of policy and implementation. It’s more than just who pays the bills. Roughly 17.5% of the U.S. GDP is spent on healthcare, yet arguably we are less healthy. Simplistic phrases like make America healthy again need to be addressed with concrete investigations that get get to root causes. Perhaps a bipartisan agreement to establish such a commission and committees could uncouple this behemoth from the practical struggle to keep the government running.
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