Why do we need a healthcare plan to reduce waste and fraud in Medicare?
Orszagism: Still there, but gets an image makeover. In it’s new, airbrushed form, we’re told that “our health care problem is our deficit problem” (which it is) but not that Obama’s reforms are necessarily the solution to the deficit problem (which they aren’t, even if they’ll work–you could also raise taxes or cut spending elsewhere). The content of those long-term structural reforms is redefined along free-lunch, no-grandiose lines: only “waste and abuse” that does “nothing to improve your care” will be targeted. That’s a relief! Only “common sense best practices” will be encouraged by the new cost-cutting panel. All building up to the central iffy policy pitch [W]e’ve estimated that most of this plan can be paid for by finding savings within the existing health care system Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan .. a) Does anyone really believe this–that is, if you define waste and inefficience as things that don’t actually help
