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That having bureaucrats and government deciding upon prices, negotiating with suppliers, using the sheer weight of money at their disposal to get better prices, would curb the way that health care seems to have its own, higher, inflation rate.
They reflect the way that the health care landscape is transforming for the better, opening up to revolutionary new ideas and new approaches.
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And we have now implemented the first phase of health care in a way that, by the way, has been complimented even by the opponents of health care reform.
But it has by now established the principle that the only way to control health-care costs is for this panel of medical high priests to dictate limits on certain kinds of care to certain classes of patients.
The migration of physicians into large, regulated entities is essential if the practice of medicine is going to be transformed into the corporatist-government model that is the only way health-care costs can be controlled.
Now, if health care is near and dear to her heart, wouldn't it be the right choice or a good choice to stay in the Senate and work on the health care issue that way?
The bulk of that is changing the way we pay for health care.
But the only way we achieve that is if we reform the health care system to slow health care inflation.
The speech was one of a series of abortion language developments that paved the way to passage of health care legislation.
Government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid should lead the way in health care reforms that improve quality and lower costs.
The only real way of bending that health care cost curve is to mechanise, to turn health care into a manufacture not a service.
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Now, because Medicare is such a big part of the health care system, making the program more efficient can help usher in changes in the way we deliver health care that can reduce costs for everybody.
One of the things that he's talked about, Wendell, is ensuring that we're making progress on health care reform as a way of bringing that deficit down, and changing the curve on our health care spending through Medicare and Medicaid.
So the only way that we can initiate true health care reform is if we control costs.
It brought dozens of new politicians to the fore, and redefined the debate on issues including health care and spending in a way that put Democrats on the defensive.
And it slows the growth of Medicare costs by strengthening an independent commission -- a commission not made up of bureaucrats from government or insurance companies, but doctors and nurses and medical experts and consumers, who will look at all the evidence and recommend the best way to reduce unnecessary health care spending while protecting access to the care that the seniors need.
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Andrew Thompson, of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, said while the pilot hospitals had introduced the reforms in a positive way, many of the others that had followed suit were trying to get "health care on the cheap".
He said he likes the idea of money following the person and thinks that it would be a more fair and open way of funding the safety net health care program.
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Giving the states the opportunity to innovate, to put in the programs that best serve their citizens in the way their citizens would rather be addressed on a health care side is substantially a wiser way to go.
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The health care law changed the way that OTC medications had been treated under those plans: currently, OTC medications are no longer qualified medical expenses for most flexible spending arrangements (FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), health savings accounts (HSAs), and Archer medical savings accounts (Archer MSAs) unless a doctor writes a prescription for the medications.
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The biggest problem with the American health care system is that it costs too much, and the way inflationary pressures are actually built into it.
An America that prevents millions of its people from pursuing their financial and business goals in the way they see fit by requiring that they place their families at risk of losing health care coverage as the price for their entrepreneurialism is not an America that any of us want.
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And the way to maximise that is to have a market in health care itself.
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For that, you need to change the way health care is purchased rather than the way it is provided.
They can go around saying that private health care is the only way.
At the end of the day, the most humane way to provide health care to the poor is to offer them subsidies to buy private insurance: something that Obamacare offers to those above the poverty line, but not below it, albeit in an overregulated and costly form.
It is actually true that Social Security is not in crisis the way our health care system is in crisis.
And it's interesting, Steve, because, you know, Tommy Thompson's the kind of candidate who on paper looks just right: a successful governor of a Midwestern state, Wisconsin, enacted welfare reform in a way that was highly regarded, came to the cabinet in health care, a subject that people care a great deal about.
And, by the way, that's why we fought so hard to pass health care reform, a.k.a.
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