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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Healthcare:  Wyden-Ryan's Unrealistic Assumptions

... the Congressional Budget Office has consistently refused to recognize large potential savings in health care costs from reforms to increase competition among private insurance plans. Indeed, the C.B.O. has concluded that replacing traditional Medicare with competition among such plans would drive up total health care spending per Medicare beneficiary.

For more, see Wyden-Ryan's Unrealistic Assumptions by Laura D'andrea Tyson, December 30, 2011 at Economix.

1 comment:

DrBones said...

Private Medicare would be disastrous! But the Republicants would counter, "Let 'em die!!!"