The answer to this question should be a no-brainer: Is it better to pay trillions of dollars annually in preventable chronic health costs, or to pay a cumulative $500-600 billion or so one-time to cover all student college loan defaults or Great Recession mortgage losses ? Hmmm. And what's the connection? We got the massive Dodd-Frank Reform in 2010 to prevent future financial catastrophes, and hopefully Great Recession 2.0--after 1.0 cost private lenders $535B, plus much collateral damage to families & the economy. We then got Obama-era regulations, subsequently reversed under Trump , to help prevent student loan defaults. Now Biden has proposed eliminating all public college/university, historically black college and undergraduate student debt . This would make a big dent in about $585B in expected student loan defaults. So where are the massive federal proposals to head off chronic diseases before they start? With total US health spending at about $4T/year, that
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