Health Care Costs II
As the House and Senate flail around on a reform plan, Fresh Air’s Terri Gross today talked with journalist Maggie Mahar about controlling health care costs.
Despite all the uncertainty about what Congress will — or won’t — do on health care before leaving for a five-week- month-long August break, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s July health care tracking poll finds continued support for taking action now. Doubts are registering, but it’s an open question whether misgivings are mounting because people don’t want reform or because they don’t want reform that’s watered down and that largely continues the system of high cost and diminished choice.