First, Do Less Harm: PAUL KRUGMAN + by PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times Friday Jan 5th, 2007
KRUGMAN: Congress can take an important step toward making our health care system less wasteful by fixing the Medicare Middleman Multiplication Act of 2003. AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST First, Do Less Harm By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: January 5, 2007 Universal health care, much as we need it, wont happen until theres a change of management in the White House. In the meantime, however, Congress can take an important step toward making our health care system less wasteful, by fixing the Medicare Middleman Multiplication Act of 2003. Officially, of course, it was the Medicare Modernization Act. But as we learned during the debate over Social Security, in Bushspeak modernize is a synonym for privatize. And one of the main features of the legislation was an effort to bring private-sector fragmentation and inefficiency to one of Americas most important public programs. The process actually started in the 1990s, when Medicare began allowing recipients to replace traditional Medicare in which the government pays doctors and hospitals with private managed-care plans, in which the government pays a fee to an H.M.O. The magic of the marketplace was supposed to cut Medicares costs. The plan backfired. --MORE-- http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-do-less-harm-paul-krugman.html Replacements for Generals Abizaid and Casey http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/replacements-for-generals-abizaid-and.html Nuke Chief Fired Over Security Breach http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/nuke-chief-fired-over-security-breach.html And More http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ New website http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/ Alternate website with unique articles MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS mparent7777 mparent CCNWON MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ New website mparent7777 mparent __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
