Thursday, February 28, 2013

Bloomberg Business Week cover story: "Why Won't Americans Listen to Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles?"


Note this chart, from Joshua Green's cover story on the fate of Simpson-Bowles and their efforts, including "Fix the Debt"  shows that virtually all of the long-term spending issue is found in rising healthcare costs.  So that might tell us that healthcare costs are a problem to be worked, by themselves.  

And if seems to be the case that one good way to make healthcare cheaper is helping people to become healthier!   A cure is cheaper than care.

Unfortunately, Simpson-Bowles had nothing to say about medical strategizing, other than cuts.  The evidence seems pretty clear across the board: Any message on healthcare that's just cuts is not going to fly.  

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  1. The HILL may be too corrupt to look for cures Jim because Pharma weighs heavy in their wallets and pocketbooks.

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