Health Policy Digest - November 10, 2009

November 10, 2009

THE WORST BILL EVER

Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all, say observers...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

BAUCUS BILL DOES NOT BEND THE COST CURVE

The Baucus health care reform bill will not lower costs but instead add to the deficit, increase total health spending and add costs and deliver little savings to consumers, according to a report from the Lewin Group...

HERITAGE FOUNDATION

THE COSTS OF DEFENSIVE MEDICINE

Doctors say the price of defensive medicine and malpractice insurance accounts for up to 10 percent of health care spending...

ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE PUBLIC'S BEST OPTION: LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE CHOICE

When compulsion takes the place of competition, the result is invariably less choice at higher cost, says columnist Jeff Jacoby...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

THE HEALTH CARE DISASTER IN CANADA

We cannot cover 36 million new patients without more doctors and nurses, much less with the declining census of medical professionals the Canadian experience points to, say columnists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann...

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW

THE COMING SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS

Our aging population is challenge enough. Try to get an appointment after health care reform, says Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital...

WALL STREET JOURNAL