Debt Panel Punted on Health Care Cost Plan

Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
Maybe the most compelling product of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission isn’t even in its groundbreaking final report.It’s the bipartisan proposal by the panel’s health care subcommittee, former White House budget director Alice Rivlin and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), to keep Medicare and Medicaid from overwhelming the federal budget.And it’s a market-based step toward a better national health care reform than Obamacare, which Ryan — and many other experts in both parties — believe will explode health costs, not...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/12/10/debt_panel_punted_on_health_care_cost_plan_247120.html

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