Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care

In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts. It is fact that more than 40 million Americans lack coverage and spiraling costs are a burden on individuals, families and our economy. There is broad consensus that these problems must be addressed. But the public is skeptical that their current clinical care is substandard and that no government bureaucrat will come between them and ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
3.4
by Patricia L'Herrou - Sep. 1, 2009

the article focuses on refuting studies used in the reform process by using other studies. at least some issuescited by the gov't relate to insurance company practices as well as to the writers' projections of proposed changes, but this is not mentioned until the end of the article. there are many studies named which seem to offset those used by the gov't, but without links to them or professional reviews offered it's difficult to know how to evaluate the writers' assessment of any of them..

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