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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (7125)6/23/2009 5:32:01 PM
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Thorley Winston June 23, 2009 11:41 AM

I attended a CLE in January put on by Professor M. Gregg Bloche who was one of Obama’s health care reform advisors during the 2008 campaign. He made pretty much the same argument that health care costs were going to eventually consume nearly half of GDP and advocated controlling costs by slowing down the rate of innovation. His logic was that if new (and initially expensive) treatments, drugs, devices and tests don’t exist then patients can’t demand them and no one has to pay for them and technically we won’t have reduced the quality of care since people would still be able to get the treatments that are available today.

meganmcardle.theatlantic.com
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