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Posted in Blog Post on Jul 17th, 2009
Lawmakers Warned About Health Costs CBO Chief Says Democrats’ Proposals Lack Necessary Controls on Spending via Budget Analyst Assails Cost of Congress’s Health-Care Proposals – washingtonpost.com. Look, the current situation in US health care simply isn’t sustainable. Obama campaigned against repealing the exemption on employer health benefits. It’s a huge subsidy to the fraying patchwork [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 17th, 2009
Mass. Panel Backs Radical Shift in Health Payment – NYTimes.com. This is an interesting development and may well mirror what will happen with federal level health reform moving forward. The state has managed to hold together a coalition to support reforming payments to providers. I’m not sure such a thing is possible at the national [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 17th, 2009
I’m not sure what the answer is, but what we’ve been doing doesn’t seem to work for anyone, except maybe Goldman Sachs. The sector officially labeled “securities, commodity contracts and investments” has grown especially fast, from only 0.3 percent of G.D.P. in the late 1970s to 1.7 percent of G.D.P. in 2007. Such growth would [...]
Date: 05/17/2007