Barack Obama's efforts to reform health care
The real battle, over health care, is just beginning
... the real test for Mr Obama is health care, and there momentum appears to be on his side. This week health-care-industry officials promised, at his urging, to cut cost-inflation by 1.5 percentage points a year, or $2 trillion over ten years. The promise was largely meaningless: if $2 trillion in savings was lying around, a profit-maximising industry would have found them. And it remains dead-set against Mr Obama’s wish for a public insurance plan that ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
If the public financed elections instead of corporations, better and cheaper bills could get passed.