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Will Obama Health Care Prevail?, Pt.9 – Tightening the bi-partisan belt.

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Serious progress will have to start with key issues of Obama’s health insurance package.  This will mostly take place at the congressional level.  Committees will be formed (or re-initiated).  The brave new world here will be a ‘bridge to somewhere’ linking the two estranged and fatigued senate parties.  It’s difficult to overestimate the significance of this movement.  Hopefully, Mr. Obama’s health insurance package accommodates tweaking without fracturing it’s foundation.  After the key issues of the revised health insurance package are mutually accepted, the next step will probably be finding viable financial avenues.

In order to project the lowest of the huge projections ($1.6 trillion to $2.3 trillion over 10 years) for the reformed health insurance package, ancillary cost-cutting measures should be high on the list.  Some of the easier measures may start first; things like: Re-importation of safe drugs from other countries and; The right to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with drug manufacturers.  These measures should require much less debate and move that portion of the health insurance package more quickly.

Though a comprehensive disease-management program is universally agreeable from a fundamental standpoint, the returns it offers are, typically, only appreciated over time.  Most of our nation gravitates toward the ‘I want it now’ approach.  It will be accepted, of course, but also become ammunition for detractors and critics from both sides concerning the entire health insurance package.

Soon will come the popular/unpopular subject of “what’s payable?’ topic.  Administrators all agree on the wisdom of ‘payment for results’.  This gets fuzzy real quick with the medical industry (and lobbyists).

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