Health Care for the Blue Dogs

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Author(s) Jacob Hacker
Source The Washington Post
Date July 28, 2009
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072701906.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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Quotes-start.png "The Blue Dogs are right to hold Obama and Democratic leaders to their commitment to real cost control. But they are wrong to see this goal as conflicting with a new national public health insurance plan for Americans younger than 65. In fact, such a plan, empowered to work with Medicare, is Congress's single most powerful lever for reforming the way care is paid for and delivered. With appropriate authority, it can encourage private plans to develop innovations in payment and care coordination that could spread through the private sector, as have past public-sector innovations." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should be passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.