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The New Republic blogs: Memo to David Brooks: Cheer Up!
Ezra Klein: Cost control opportunities galore
Hit & Run: Is There No Political Problem That a Powerless Independent Commission Cannot Solve?
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Memo to David Brooks: Cheer Up!
The New Republic blogs —
... has detailed, the Senate bill Majority Leader Harry Reid delivered includes a wide variety of cost-cutting efforts, more or less fulfilling the wish list of experts in and outside of the health care industry. Many of these efforts don't go far enough. David Leonhardt has written about this, most recently today. ( ...
Cost control opportunities galore
Ezra Klein —
... David Leonhardt has a great column today on all the cost-cutting opportunities still in the Senate bill. Liberals have a tendency to focus on the money that can be saved by a strong public plan, and it's true that that's a potential avenue for savings, but it's not the only one. Extending the new Medicare Commission to apply to hospitals in the first 10 years (they are, strangely, exempted, a quirk that many speculate was part of the deal with the hospital industry) would be a step forward. So too would be retargeting the Medicare Commission to a lower rate of ...
Is There No Political Problem That a Powerless Independent Commission Cannot Solve?
Hit & Run —
... Dave Leonhardt's NYT column today looks
at ways that health care reform legislation attempts to address
the rising cost of health care. One solution, he says, is of
particular importance. Leonhardt says that "economists put the
idea near the top of their wish list, as has President Obama. It
has the potential to bend the curve of Medicare spending, as the
experts say, and eventually spread to the rest of medicine." ...
The possibility of deficit reduction
Ezra Klein —
It didn't fit in the last post, but I also wanted to quote this bit from David Leonhardt's column:
Complaining that Congress and the White House aren’t doing enough to reduce the deficit is always a popular pundit game. So it’s no surprise that the last few weeks have been filled with knowing claims that health reform will fail to control spiraling health costs.
Sometimes, however, Washington really does succeed in reducing the deficit. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower both did it. President ...
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