Laying down the law on health reform
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, december 19, 2009 | The Boston Globe
“…It is time for Congress to say that two-thirds of a loaf, roughly speaking, is better than none. Should reform pass, the Congressional Budget Office and the Medicare actuary say the uninsured rolls will be knocked down to between 18 million and 24 million. Without reform, the CBO, the actuary, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimate we will have between 54 million and 66 million uninsured Americans by 2019. To be sure, the reductions will not keep America from being a global laughing stock on health care. We will remain the only industrialized nation without universal health coverage. Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean is correct in saying that reform is a giveaway to the insurance companies that historically put profit before coverage….”….BS
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