Championing the Status Quo

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Author(s) Robert J. Samuelson
Source The Washington Post
Date August 10, 2009
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/09/AR2009080902090.html
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Quotes-start.png "No president has spoken more forcefully about the need to control costs. Failure, he's argued, would expand federal budget deficits, raise out-of-pocket health costs and squeeze take-home pay (more compensation would go to insurance). All true. But Obama's program would do little to reduce costs and would increase spending by expanding subsidized insurance. The House legislation would cut the number of uninsured by 37 million by 2018, estimates the Congressional Budget Office. The uninsured get care now; with insurance they'd get more." Quotes-end.png


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