Cleveland Clinic Chief Says Health Reform Proposals Fail To Reduce Costs
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From Cleveland.com
Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the leader of the Obama-praised Cleveland Clinic, predicts that in the next four to five years Americans will demand another health reform bill because the proposals moving through Congress do little to control costs.
The House bill passed last weekend and two Senate proposals fail to make the health system more efficient, and do not do enough to help Americans get healthy, Cosgrove said during a speech at Jones Day law firm in downtown Cleveland Tuesday.
“Without controlling obesity, and without controlling smoking, and without dealing with wellness, it’s going to be very difficult for us to ever control the cost of health care in the United States, and the current bills do very little along those lines,” Cosgrove said.
President Barack Obama has made controlling health care costs a focus in his health reform efforts. He visited the Clinic in July before stopping for a rally at Shaker Heights High School as part of day-long effort to reinvigorate the national health care discussion .
The president has praised the Clinic, as well as the Mayo Clinic, as models of low-cost and high-quality care. The reference comes from statistics in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 2008, a report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Policy, a research and educational institution in New Hampshire.
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