Comment & Debate
Howard Dean. “Health-care bill wouldn’t bring real reform.” Washington Post (Op-Ed). December 17, 2009: “If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers’ monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve the delivery of health care and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these.”
Howard Dean. “Health-care bill wouldn’t bring real reform.” Washington Post (Op-Ed). December 17, 2009: “Real health-care reform is supposed to eliminate discrimination based on preexisting conditions. But the legislation allows insurance companies to charge older Americans up to three times as much as younger Americans, pricing them out of coverage.”