Observations From Health Care Analysts (Health Wonk Review)

Posted on | January 7, 2010 | Comments Off on Observations From Health Care Analysts (Health Wonk Review)

In Health Wonk Review this week Brian Klepper compiles the thoughts of numerous Health Policy commentators at this critical juncture in health reform. He opens with:

“Here we are, with the first edition of Health Wonk Review (HWR) in a new decade. It is a pregnant moment, as reconciliation begins between the House and Senate health care reform bills, when the best health wonks are weighing in on how we arrived here and what it will probably mean to have a few key successes and some very significant failures at a time when most everyone in the country who doesn’t have power yearns for real solutions. Joe Paduda summed it up very nicely on Managed Care Matters, ‘…after all this, we’re going to end up with a bill that won’t work – it will not appreciably reduce health care costs today, tomorrow, ever.’ Alas, the result is much more a reflection of what America has become than what health care is about.”

(TO CONTINUE …)