Comments on: Universal coverage or cutting costs http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/universal-coverage-or-cutting-costs.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/universal-coverage-or-cutting-costs.html/comment-page-1#comment-83210 Anonymous Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/universal-coverage-or-cutting-costs.html#comment-83210 Sure you can --through declared savings, as in "We will save 120 billion by using electronic records" and "We will save 40 billion by cutting fraud and waste".<br/><br/>Just declare it, and it "will" happen, right?<br/><br/>Actually, given the 100% rate of gross failure of the health care planner to predict the financial consequences of every health program over the last 40 years, the fact that any politician can make statements like that and not be immediately booed out of public life is a sad commentary on democracy itself. Sure you can –through declared savings, as in “We will save 120 billion by using electronic records” and “We will save 40 billion by cutting fraud and waste”.

Just declare it, and it “will” happen, right?

Actually, given the 100% rate of gross failure of the health care planner to predict the financial consequences of every health program over the last 40 years, the fact that any politician can make statements like that and not be immediately booed out of public life is a sad commentary on democracy itself.

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