Congress making healthcare decisions."On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I [Jonathan Karl] am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill."
Liberal economists making healthcare decisions:
"I think it's important to have a public option in the bill in some form, even an unsatisfactory one, because it will be much easier to expand the option once it's in place than it would be to pass new legislation in the future that creates a public option."
US Department of Health and Human Resources making healthcare decisions:
New guidelines saying women between the ages of 40 and 50 should not receive mammograms to screen for breast cancer have met a groundswell of rejection from many medical centers, breast cancer survivors and numerous doctors -- some of whom have advised their patients to ignore the recommendation.
Just three recent stories I picked up, and I expect these stories to repeat themselves for 20 years. Congress selling health care for votes, liberal economists claiming inefficiency as superior, and doctor monopolies manipulating the cost control system. Welcome to the horrid mess of Congress managing the medical industry.
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