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Reform Editorials Examine Rationed Care, Taxing Health Benefits

January 26, 2010 | |

Go bust enclose Street Journal: A recent decision by CMS to end Medicare coverage of virtual colonoscopies is “a preview of how health care bequeath be rationed when Democrats” initiate “a new ‘universal’ health indemnification entitlement for the middle class,” a Daily leader states. According to the editorial, the prospects of such a health system are “playing unfashionable in little in Medicare” where CMS has firm that sacrifice an surrogate to the traditional colonoscopy is “too pricey.” The think-piece states that the situation features “precisely the sort of complexity that the Democrats would favour to ignore as they seek to restructure trim care” and use comparative effectiveness up on to infer what works best for the majority of patients. According to the editorial, “The problem is that what ‘works best’ isn’t the same for everyone.” It continues that CMS “made the hard-and-dissolute acceptance that it was cheaper to cut [virtual colonoscopies] … for all beneficiaries. If some patients are worse bad, lovingly, too bad.” The editorial concludes that the situation is “merely a preview of the life-and-death decisions that will be firm by politics” if Democrats legislate their ideal system (Wall Street Journal, 5/19).


Washington Post: President Obama should reconsider his stance against taxing health be concerned benefits in codify to fund well-being care emendation because such a plan would “help be true down vigour guardianship costs and be fairer to low-gains [U.S. residents] than the current system,” a Send editorial states. The editorial continues that it is not necessary to fully tax form benefits because a finding enjoyment in duty could inert “produce significant sums while avoiding the destabilizing effect” of enacting a broad tax. The op-ed article concludes, “Expanding coverage is important; so is paying suited for it. The more revenue sources sinistral on the bring up at this point, the better the proper outcome” (Washington Post, 5/19).

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