Nation’s Leading Economists Urge Congress To Pass Health Insurance Reform

[babylonsister]

Nation’s Leading Economists Urge Congress To Pass Health Insurance Reform
March 11th, 2010 by Karina


In a letter sent this morning to President Obama and Congress, 41 of the nation’s leading economists – including three winners of the Nobel Prize – urge the swift passage of comprehensive health reform before Congress to slow ‘unsustainable’ health care spending:

...Without effective reform of the way we pay for health care, growth of health care spending will create unsustainable fiscal burdens, eat into cash compensation, perpetuate waste, and undermine the prospects for universal access to needed care.

The health care reforms passed by the House and Senate – with recent modifications proposed by President Obama – include serious measures that will slow the growth of health care spending…

Taken together, these measures are a serious, multi-faceted initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of American medical care, rein in the fastest growing portion of government and private budgets and provide a valuable platform for future cost-control efforts. If this nation is committed to cost containment and deficit reduction we must pass health care reform. If this legislation fails, the chances of reducing the growth of health care spending in the future will be greatly reduced.

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http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=2186

[Captain Hilts]

1. It's not great. But the alternative of no HCR is much worse. nt

[Supersedeas]

5. Bingo

[Lifelong Protester]

2. I want us to get in the door with this....

it's not all we want, I'll grant anyone that, but let's get this far.

[Cha]

3. That's one of the major keys,

isn't it? The economy will be strategically helped by the passage of the HRC.

[girl gone mad]

4. RomneyCare is doing a lot of damage to the Mass. economy.

I'd be shocked if the national version manages to bend the cost curve anywhere close to what the bill boosters predict.

[rufus dog]

7. there is one very unpopular difference in the national plan n/t

[havocmom]

8. This one helps Wall Street

And evidently, Wall Street is the only voter that matters

[Cha]

6. Kick