Friday, July 24, 2009
Krugman writes about Obama's Health Care presser
Something the talking heads were enjoined from doing by their corporate masters.
Now President Obama is trying to provide every American with access to health insurance — and he’s also doing more to control health care costs than any previous president.It is much more than the public option, but they better not forget that.
I don’t know how many people understand the significance of Mr. Obama’s proposal to give MedPAC, the expert advisory board to Medicare, real power. But it’s a major step toward reducing the useless spending — the proliferation of procedures with no medical benefits — that bloats American health care costs.
And both the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats have also been emphasizing the importance of “comparative effectiveness research” — seeing which medical procedures actually work.
So the Obama administration’s commitment to health care for all goes along with an unprecedented willingness to get serious about spending health care dollars wisely. And that’s part of a broader pattern.
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