Paying the piper

“Expanding coverage is easy compared to controlling healthcare costs,” said Nancy Turnbull, a Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector board member and associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Nobody has to give much up to expand coverage, but in controlling cost there will always be losers.”

I nonminate this one for Keen Grasp of the Obvious (too late) Award of THe Day.

This from the Mecca of medicine.

I commented on this earlier:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/paying-to-remain-uninsured.html

The concept of individual mandates is fine by me, and infinitely better than single-payer options.

Doing so without expanding physician access and infusing primary care with the appropriate resources is not, and doomed to failure.

Kevin

The liberal fools at Harvard have engineered all sorts of ways to avoid the pay cut that will be imposed on the private docs.