NYT on 'healthcare bill'

No time to check this out:

from alfreda89
No, you won't get more choice with the new Insurance plans....
...because too many people/corporations benefit from the status quo. Only 14 senators had the courage to vote for a real change bill, back in 2007.

Did you know that a family spends about $15,000 in health care each year? Because it is in taxes and employer health pools, you don't always see what's going on.

Here's a bit of reality from the NYT. (Their last chance -- If this guy turns out to be a ripoff artist, no more quotes from NYTimes....)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/economy/26leonhardt.html?_r=1&em

FCCCER

Ah, that was the name of that thing.

President Obama’s Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research was sold as simply government helping doctors choose the best treatments. But there are dozens of medical journal review articles that do just that. The real purpose of such councils is ultimately to establish official criteria for denying reimbursement to less favored (because presumably less effective) treatments — precisely the triage done by the NICE committee in Britain [....]
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washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082703262.html