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Sorting Through The Health Care Rhetoric
For anyone trying to sort through the rhetoric surrounding the health care reform debate, I highly recommend a recent book by T. R. Reid entitled The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. The author does an excellent job of describing the different health care systems that have been… »
Bending the Health Care Cost Curve (Part II)
Sunday’s Washington Post Business Page ran a story by staff writer Ezra Klein with the headline “You Have No Idea What Health Costs” and a subheading, which read, “If You Did, You Might Just Want Real Reform”. This article follows a provocative piece by David Goldhill in the September issue of The Atlantic Magazine, entitled:… »
Hoping for Bad News?
Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson headlines his June 1 article about Social Security and Medicare “Let Them Go Bankrupt, Soon“. The article following this provocative headline is based on the premise that important fixes to Social Security and Medicare will not occur until a crisis is staring the President and Congress in… »