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Robert Laszewski
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Everyone in the health care debate seems to agree that the biggest problem is costs and that the best way to control costs is to get at the waste in the system. To raise the money needed to cover everyone and to make the system sustainable, goes the argument, we need to convert the upwards... Read the rest of this entry »
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Robert Laszewski
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Speaking about the imperative to bring America’s entitlement spending under control last December, Barack Obama said, “What we have done is kicked this can down the road. We are now at the end of the road and are not in a position to kick it any further. We have to signal seriousness in this by... Read the rest of this entry »
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Robert Laszewski
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Editor’s Note: Shorter versions of this post have appeared on The Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review and The Health Care Blog. You can also read a related follow-on post by Robert Laszewski here. Senate Democrats and Republicans are engaged in one heck of a “game of chicken” over the automatic July 1 10.6% Medicare... Read the rest of this entry »
