freecounterpoint: A pinko gets the willies

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Don't worry, be happy, says Pepe.

Pepe le Pew said...: Well i am worried that the bill might not pass. Hopefully obie-one will learn from dubbyah's early bulldozing skills.; 8/18/2009 8:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Pepe le Pew, Per Castra ad Asstra; 8/18/2009 9:06 PM
Tecumseh said...: More:

The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report in June explaining the Obama administration's goal of reducing projected health spending by 30% over the next two decades. That reduction would be achieved by eliminating "high cost, low-value treatments," by "implementing a set of performance measures that all providers would adopt," and by "directly targeting individual providers . . . (and other) high-end outliers."

Comparative effectiveness could become the vehicle for deciding whether each method of treatment provides enough of an improvement in health care to justify its cost. ... The existence of such a program in the United States would not only deny lifesaving care but would also cast a pall over medical researchers who would fear that government experts might reject their discoveries as "too expensive."

Joys of Socialism in all its glory.; 8/18/2009 11:07 PM
Tecumseh said...: Commentary on Martin Feldstein's WSJ piece.; 8/19/2009 12:28 AM