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]]> By: ddiloreto http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/03/03/the-obama-budget-so-far-just-kicking-the-can-down-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-24884 ddiloreto Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:08:30 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/?p=570#comment-24884 Assuming that the US Congress' efforts to provide effective solutions to the funding shortfalls succinctly described in this article are sufficiently inadequate, a potential remedy could be to create a Federal Reserve-like structure for making the crucial but time sensitive and politically sensitive decisions needed to stabilize and enhance a flawed health care system. Of course, the Federal Reserve model might still beg the question as to how you ultimately fund health care but meaningful remedies to make the system less expensive could be enacted far more quickly than through the legislative bodies. Assuming that the US Congress’ efforts
to provide effective solutions to the funding shortfalls
succinctly described in this article are sufficiently
inadequate, a potential remedy could be to create a Federal Reserve-like
structure for making the crucial but time sensitive and politically sensitive
decisions needed to stabilize and enhance a flawed health care system.

Of course, the Federal Reserve model might still beg the question as to how you ultimately fund
health care but meaningful remedies to make the system less expensive could be enacted far more quickly than through the legislative bodies.

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