Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Harvard Medical School Dean Says Healthcare Reform Will Accelerate Higher Spending

"I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it." - Jeffrey S. Filer, Dean of Harvard Medical School

also from the same editorial on WSJ:
"...while the legislation would enhance access to insurance, the trade-off would be an accelerated crisis of health-care costs and perpetuation of the current dysfunctional system—now with many more participants. This will make an eventual solution even more difficult."