Health Care Reform Articles - June 13, 2011

June 12, 2011

Medicare Saves Money

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that’s so bad, so wrongheaded, that you’re almost grateful. For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse has gone off the rails.

And so it was with Senator Joseph Lieberman’s proposal, released last week, to raise the age for Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/opinion/13krugman.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

British fear 'American-style' healthcare system

As leaders debate ways to reform healthcare, politicians repeatedly tell a worried public that Britain will not turn the National Health Service into an 'American-style' private system.

By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times

June 13, 2011

Reporting from London

Two years ago, Britons were outraged when U.S. politicians like Sarah Palin, in the debate over healthcare reform, turned this country's National Health Service into a public whipping boy, denouncing it as "evil," "Orwellian" and generally the enemy of everything good and true.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fg-britain-health-care-20110613,0,7117091,print.story