Bush health plans costly
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Sara Rosenbaum writes in the Feb. 27th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (free article) that it is an effort to redefine “the role of government in organizing and overseeing the health care marketplace,” not budget, which has driven Bush health proposals. Her case in point is SCHIP, which she calls the "proxy war," but others are in the news. Today, the New York Times says that another Government Accounting Office report (scheduled for release) will again confirm that the privatized Medicare Advantage has higher costs than Medicare (from which it was spun off). Extra costs have been estimated 12 percent to 19 percent greater, and are expected to reach $55 billion more by 2012.
