Governors around the U.S. are proposing to balance their states' budgets with a long list of cuts and almost no new taxes, reflecting a goal by politicians from both parties to erase deficits chiefly by shrinking government.

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People who are poor, mentally ill or disabled, and the community clinics that serve them — they're all facing serious hits as lawmakers looking to trim the state budget home in on a huge area of spending: health care.

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Mirroring the private sector trend, expenses have skyrocketed within the military's health system. The military spent $19 billion on health care in 2001 — and $49 billion in 2010. Read the Article>

Marc Kilmer's op-ed piece ("Health reform's painful pinch for Md.," April 14) criticized Maryland's health care coverage initiative and the new federal health care reform law for worsening the state's budget deficit.

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning fiscal policy research group in Washington, put out a point-by-point refutation on Thursday of claims from opponents of the new health insurance law that its projected savings, especially from Medicare, are based on budgetary gimmicks and will never be realized.

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Speaker Pelosi said Democrats were still waiting for congressional budget analysts to determine whether the package would meet the party's deficit-reduction goals.

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The $3.8 trillion budget released by the White House on Monday includes $150 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years on the presumption that a health care bill will be adopted.

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