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Article: Reforming health care: managed care needs a cop.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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The debate in Congress over health-care policy has begun to resemble a Fellini movie--there is something important going on, but you can't quite tell what. You know that some of the scenes are quite funny. Most of them, though, leave one confused, even apprehensive.
Republicans, who tried to deny the existence of any health-care crisis when the Democrats ran Congress, have discovered several crises, especially the looming bankruptcy of the Medicare system. Democrats appear to have lost sight of any substantive health-care emergency, and have fallen instead upon a good and worthy whipping boy, the rich, who are supposed to benefit the most from the reduced federal ...