That Didn’t Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise to President Obama

Why we can’t trust the insurance industry with health care reform.

Just four days after standing next to President Obama and declaring their commitment to control health care costs to the tune of $2 trillion over 10 years, the insurance industry, drug and medical device makers, and hospital groups are backing off their promise:

Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health spending. Full Story »

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Kevin Barry
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by Kevin Barry - May. 19, 2009

This article points out a potential backpedaling of the health care industry on commitments to control costs. However, it does so in a childish way (in the end it basically degenerates into name-calling), that I feel it begins to adversely affect the argument that is being made.

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