New at Reason: Ron Bailey On Health Care Reform

October 20, 2009

On Saturday, President Barack Obama denounced two new studies, sponsored by the health insurance industry, which found that current health care reform bills in Congress will increase premium prices for consumers. The president is right that we should always be skeptical of studies that find in favor of the groups that sponsor them. But as Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey explains, there's good evidence that past federal reform attempts have increased the cost of health care. In his latest column, Bailey examines various plausible explanations for skyrocketing health care costs and then asks what is missing from the reforms proposed by the president and the Democratic leadership in Congress.

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