Lobbyists Fight Efforts to Save on Health Care

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 Dan Gillmor, Jonathan Cohn, Tim O'Reilly, New York Times (Most Emailed), Patrick Ruffini, Google News (Health), Tom Friedman, Huffington Post (Health Care)

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Manfred Ostrowski
4.1
by Manfred Ostrowski - Oct. 12, 2009

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..

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