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Article: Obama promises aside, no revolution in sight.(Barack Obama and the health care system)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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A study involving health care systems in 21 countries--and the prospects for change in response to such common pressures as rising costs and aging populations--casts doubt on the possibility of major overhauls of any of these systems because of the history and traditions that created them. The findings come as Pres. Barack Obama and his Cabinet choices concerning health have increased speculation of substantial changes ahead for the unwieldy U.S. health care system.
"Our findings explain, to the dismay of many who would like to see more radical change in the U.S., why Pres. Obama's campaign proposal regarding health care reform was pretty much a center proposal, ...