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...lesson can be learned from health care in the developed world, it's that chronic diseases are a lot less costly when they're prevented from the start: up to 80% of premature death from heart disease, stroke and diabetes can be avoided with basic behavioral changes and inexpensive drug treatments. But so far there has been little effort to tailor those interventions to low- and middle-income nations, such as China and Brazil, where chronic diseases are expected to take a serious toll in coming decades. "Avoiding tobacco, improving nutrition and getting more exercise - we know this works," says...
...Insurers have consolidated," says Linda Blumberg, an economist and health-care expert at the Urban Institute. "Similar things have happened in the provider community. In a lot of areas, insurers will tell you they have no negotiating power with providers and they're held over a barrel. [A public plan] would force insurers and providers to negotiate with each other, which they aren't doing today...
...leaders of the Republican Party, a public health-care-insurance option is a "non-starter," the first step on a slippery slope to socialized medicine; in the eyes of the American Medical Association (AMA), it could "restrict patient choice"; while for President Barack Obama, as he put it on Monday during his speech to the AMA in Chicago, it's an essential part of any health-care-reform package that would "put affordable health care within reach for millions of Americans...
...table. There is not. But that hasn't stopped House and Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle from turning a public plan into one of the most contentious issues being debated inside the Beltway, one that could potentially make or break the passage of landmark health-care reform this year. (Read "Cost, Not Coverage, Drive Health-Care Debate...
...even taken some flak from members of my own party for this belief - that it is important for us to build on our traditions here in the United States. So, when you hear the naysayers claim that I'm trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: they are not telling the truth." (After the New York Times reported last week the AMA's opposition to a public plan, the group said its stance had been misinterpreted and that it would be "willing to consider other variations of a public plan that are currently under discussion in Congress...