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1 | Washington Health-Care Battle Heats Up With details of the much heralded health-care overhaul beginning to trickle through the capital, interest groups are gearing up for a fight. President Obama's June 13 proposal to cut $313 billion in Medicare and Medicaid spending over 10 years rankled hospitals...
By contrast, not everyone realizes that we use too much health care; most of us assume that more treatment is better, that the best doctors are the ones who do the most to us, that our health costs are the world's highest because our health care is the world...
Obama has already taken several whacks at waste in energy and health care. His stimulus had more than $20 billion for energy-efficiency measures designed to slash electricity use in low-income homes, on military bases and in all kinds of government buildings, while his fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles...
It makes good sense to give consumers of energy and health care information and incentives to deter us from overconsuming. But information has its limits. We all know exercise is good for us, but that doesn't get all of us off the La-Z-Boy. Incentives aren't everything...
So don't expect government intervention on the demand side - through education campaigns, tax incentives or targeted subsidies - to rein in our cravings. But in the energy arena, several states have already proved that rationalizing incentives on the supply side can transform the landscape. In most of the country, per...