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The Heritage Think Tank's Battle on Health Care ... Again
History doesn't repeat ???This is one of the first major salvos on the upcoming debate about the Obama health plan from Robert E. Moffit (bio), director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies.
If folks don't recall, Moffit drafted the forty-one page 19,800+ word screed of Heritage Foundation's analysis of President Bill Clinton's plan to nationalize the U.S. health care system back in 1993. If you were to take the time and read both of Moffit's commentaries, you can't help but notice the similarities of criticism in his 1993 commentary and the present commentary below.
MOFFIT: A high court of health
Monday, January 12, 2009
Washington Times
"Details kill." That's Tom Daschle, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services and the nation's new "health-care czar," explaining to the Associated Press why national health reform has failed in the past. Big, clumsy Clinton-style health reform bills, the size of a telephone book, read and analyzed by ordinary people - that, according to Mr. Daschle, led to fatal criticism.
Translation: If we hadn't spelled out the specifics of what we really wanted, we could have gotten our schemes past the public without a lot of noisy and unpleasant dissent and safely enacted into law.
It continues, ad nauseum, at this link
And ... I always enjoy having someone translate what their red-herrings mean that they bring up in their own commentary.
~OGD~
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January 12, 2009 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the links OGD. Anything coming out of the Heritage Foundation screams 'shill for corporate interests'. It will be interesting to see how effective they are in shutting down debate this time around. I have hope that the increase in the use of the internet will help overcome the efforts of these hacks.
January 12, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I found Moffit's statement regarding a federal health board making decision as to the statistical effectiveness/cost of treatment in a national system telling: "Additionally, they would "help define evidence-based benefits and lower overall spending by determining which medicines, treatments and procedures are most effective - and identifying those that do not justify their high price tags." Translation: denied payment." He didn't say 'denied treatment'.
My question: What's his primary concern here? That a patient's claim for service is denied, or that an insurer would be denied the premium payments they have come to expect as their due?
January 12, 2009 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Details.... Details... Why would medical care need details? Just do medicine by the seat of your pants!
Give me a break!
January 12, 2009 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does the Heritage foundation hate the American people? Or does it only hate the ones who die because they are too poor to obtain medical care? Maybe that's it.
January 12, 2009 8:52 PM | Reply | Permalink