Health-reform cost estimates likely to be unreliable, experts warn

The fate of White House and congressional efforts to overhaul the nation's health care system is likely to depend on the price tag, but there's no precise, reliable way to estimate the cost.

"This is very difficult to quantify," said Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy at Harvard University and a health care expert, speaking about proposed health care changes.

Such "structural shifts are incredibly hard to predict," added Gus ... Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Jul. 2, 2009

This article's angle puts health care reform cost estimates into some perspective. Includes expert opinions. This topic merits further investigation: what do these government estimates really mean? Who decides them? How was the Bush administration able to so vastly underestimate Medicare reform costs--and get away with it?

It would be great if media outlets regularly featured articles which helped readers understand how the government really does things.

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