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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Obama Health Care Plan: A Closer Look at Cost and Coverage

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2114.cfm

"Cost-savings would not come from fundamentally realigning economic incentives but would rely on dubious "if only' propositions related to changes in health care delivery."

"The main problem is that these [popular, common methods] are "if only' savings, which can be achieved "if only' certain events would occur, such as physicians' being willing to adopt health IT, consumers being willing to accept changes in diet and exercise. … There is little evidence that there are known methods to cause the "if only' behavior to occur, and to occur quickly on a large enough scale to matter."

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