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...government powers that touch us. Playing along with that sketchy (but expensive) new treatment or being a champion of the wacky new state initiative is more likely to help your career than giving an educated but honest appraisal of actual patients' well being. The only salvation from this might be, strangely, the recession. Traditional medicine, without the consumer marketing or institutional pandering to federal agencies, is cheaper. And if the downturn turns down low enough, we'll need to turn down demand. And stop hawking medicine...
Kristol, Bill •opinion of, shared by Brit Hume, that "it might be worth doing some targeted air strikes" against North Korea...
...rest of us might be forgiven if we view Baucus' prediction with a little more skepticism. After all, universal health care is a cause that comes around every 15 or 20 years in Washington, and Presidents as far back as Woodrow Wilson have tried and failed to make it happen. The last big effort, in 1993 and 1994, was a political disaster that set Bill Clinton's presidency back a year or more. (Watch a video about a woman living without health insurance...
...that lawmakers will ultimately go for a watered-down version of a public plan - one, for instance, that would have to operate like a private insurance company, sustaining itself with the premiums it brings in and paying doctors and hospitals higher reimbursements than Medicare does. Or a public plan might be created only as a fallback if insurance companies fail to make coverage affordable and accessible...
...might make sense for Congress to turn over that power to an independent agency, something along the lines of the Federal Health Board proposed by former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who had been Obama's choice for Health and Human Services Secretary until he withdrew his nomination amid a controversy over unpaid taxes. Conservatives charge that this would put Washington in the middle of decisions that are best left to doctors and patients. But would Americans really find a faraway government bureaucrat any more objectionable in that role than a faceless private insurance company that makes those decisions...