Editorial debate: Rising Medical Costs
USA Today
March 14, 2001
View of USA Today: Better planning is needed to avoid pitfalls of last revolution.
Opposing view: Rather than shift rising costs to patients, cut out HMO middlemen.
USA Today:
"And employers who think defined-contribution health plans are the way to go will have to provide solid answers - before jumping at what appears to be a quick solution to the current cash crunch. The last thing the nation needs is another health-care revolution that fails to perform as promised."
Ida Hellander, M.D., Executive Director of Physicians for a National Health Program:
"Upping costs for families and the sick would cause millions of casualties. National health insurance would cause just two: HMOs and obscene drug-company profits."
USA Today opinion:
<http://usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-14-nceditf.htm>http://usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-14-nceditf.htm
Other opinion:
<http://usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-14-ncoppf.htm>http://usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-14-ncoppf.htm