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Equity, Health & Human Development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Sent: 04 August 2009 17:20
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Subject: [EQ] Health Reform: The
Fateful Moment
Health Reform: The Fateful Moment
Book review:
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care
Crisis by Senator Tom Daschle,
with Scott S. Greenberger and Jeanne M. Lambrew
By:
Theodore R. Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Political Science at Yale.
The author of The Politics of Medicare (2000), his most recent book is Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care
Management and Policy. (August 2009)
Jonathan Oberlander, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and an associate
professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy and Management at the University
of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Political Life of Medicare. (August
2009)
Website: http://bit.ly/13gxYw
“……Whatever health reform legislation emerges
this fall (if any), we can plausibly predict that it will substantially reduce
the number of uninsured Americans.
That in itself would be a major achievement, though it will surely fall short
of universal coverage.
Moreover, unless it provides system-wide limits on health care spending, any
legislation that emerges from Congress will not reliably control the costs of
medical care. These two issues are closely linked. Failure to control costs
would jeopardize the very gains in health insurance coverage that reform
promises…………..”
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