Legal Commentary

Attempts At Cost Containment, Except The Best One

By Big Tent Democrat

Paul Krugman:

[T]he Senate bill tries a wide variety of approaches to cost containment — in fact, just about everything that has been suggested. We don’t know which of these approaches will work or how well, but that’s more than anyone has managed to achieve ever before.

(Emphasis supplied.) Actually we know the approach that has worked historically in the United States to control health care costs, the public insurance option, was stripped from the bill. The bill does some good, but it does nothing meaningful in terms of cost containment. Weak stuff from Krugman.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 20, 2009 (boomark / email).