WHAT BIG MISTAKE ARE WE MAKING?

The National Journal recently asked health policy experts what health care issue they would look back upon 10 years from now and really wish we had paid more attention to in 2009?

They said that in the current health care debate, we are making three very big mistakes:

• Believing that we can control health care costs without having anyone choose between health care and other uses of money.
• Believing that we can improve quality without having providers compete for patients based on quality.
• Believing that we can improve access by inducing people to drop their private coverage and join public plans that pay providers below market rates.

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