Most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s vow to curb health care costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politics. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Jonathan Cohn, Tim O'Reilly, Dan Gillmor, Patrick Ruffini, Huffington Post (Health Care), New York Times (Most Emailed), Google News (Health), Tom Friedman
Good sketch of the current debate and the impact of lobbyists. The article lowers expectations that health care costs might drop.
The article describes cutting of health care costs as main objective of health care reform. It does not mention sufficiently the central goal of providing health insurance to most of the uninsured.
How the measures fare in the final weeks of debate could determine how well the bill lives up to its original promise of curbing health care costs.. More »
Lobbying by doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, meanwhile, dimmed the prospects of various proposals to cut into their incomes, including allowing ... More »
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