What Would Really Improve Health Care - Huffington Post
February 6, 2011
As the new Congress threatens to repeal health care reform and Republicans and deficit reduction panels eye major entitlement cuts, Medicare has become their central battleground, just as the first of 78 million Boomers turn 65 and begin joining the program.
The deficit hawks have a point. Even Medicare's most ardent defenders admit that, without changes in organization and financing, government health care expenditures will double in the next seven years. If Medicare is to survive, we must "bend the cost curve," particularly for its greatest consumers: high-need, high-cost older patients.
