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Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Google News (Lobbying), AllTop (Haiti)
Legitimate questions, but this like so many others falls for the "rationing" myth. Nowhere does the author explain the activity of health innovation today.
I wonder whether the Obama plan will hamper such innovations and wind up as a Trojan horse for cutting costs and rationing care. While the plans won’t be made public until later this month, Obama seems intent on creating a government body that picks winners and losers, approving some innovations but not others.
