Healthcare Reform Suffering from Hypertension
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As the House of Representatives passed one proposal for healthcare reform and the Senate considered at least two other sweeping bills, the partisan and even analytical rhetoric is heating up. The director of the Congressional Budget Office torpedoed all of the ideas coming out of Congress, charging that no piece of legislation proposes “the sort of fundamental change that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount.” What are the current options for reform and what compromises remain the most palatable?
Guests:
Robert Reischauer, President of the Urban Institute; former director of the Congressional Budget Office from ’89 – ‘95
Ken Jacobs, Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center
Jonathan Gruber, Professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; director of the Program on Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Stephen Shortell, Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health & Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy & Management
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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