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Is Cost Control a Joke?
tnr.com - 19 days ago
Is Cost Control a Joke?
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For all of the crazy arguments against health care reform, a few of them are entirely sensible--and worth taking seriously. As I write in my latest Kaiser Health News column , which appeared on TNR’s home page yesterday , one of those is the worry that Congress won’t follow through ...
Does health-care reform do enough on cost control?
voices.washingtonpost.com - 12 days ago
Does health-care reform do enough on cost control?
— voices.washingtonpost.com — Jon Gruber is a health economist at MIT. But that understates his influence in the field. He... was one of the architects of the Massachusetts reforms. In 2005, he was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine. In 2006, he received the American ... (more) Does health-care reform do enough on cost control?

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crystalair.com - 21 days ago
Are you in on the joke?
— crystalair.com — The best photos from July. (more) Are you in on the joke?

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plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com - 23 days ago
Four a Year?
— plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com — I love Reagan's stories, and Mankiw cites Stockman for one, yesterday: The starting point for Ronald Reagan... was the idea that people respond to incentives. The incentives that he most worried about were those provided by the tax system. According to ... (more) Four a Year?

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Ezra Klein:  Can Congress control costs?

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Can Congress control costs?
Ezra Klein — ... As Jon Cohn explains, however, SGR is the exception, not the rule. Congress has passed plenty of proposals that cut costs in Medicaid and Medicare, and stuck to most of them. SGR really is an exception: It was a formula passed when GDP growth was unusually high and health-care cost growth was unusually low. When GDP growth slumped and health-care costs shot back up, following the payment rates set out by the SGR came to look draconian. The problem is that rather than fix the bill, Congress just passed temporary delays. Repeal would have been more honest. ...

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