Why Democrats Want More Education Spending But Less Healthcare Spending

73% of campaign contributions from the education industry go to democrats.
56% of campaign contributions from the healthcare industry go to republicans.

"What is curious is that this rise in education costs is deemed by the liberal establishment smart and farsighted while the rise in health-care costs is a curse to be stopped at any cost. What is curiouser still is that in education, where they always advocate more "investment," past increases have gone hand-in-hand with demonstrably deteriorating outcomes. The rising cost in health care has been accompanied by clearly superior results. Thus we would shift dollars from where they do a lot of good to an area where they don't."

- George Newman in the Wall Street Journal