Newswise — Johns Hopkins Medicine has several experts who can discuss health care reform as evident in these two opinion pieces.
WALL STREET JOURNALHealth Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients A vast expansion of the program will impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers.Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Actuary Richard Foster estimates.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567981549184844.html
BALTIMORE SUNPrescription: more doctorsInsurance doesn't guarantee care, so we need incentives to boost the ranks of physicians That 30 million Americans may soon be able to obtain health care insurance is at the core of the Senate and House health care bills. But let's be clear: "insurance" doesn't guarantee "care." Indeed, a recurrent theme on the Senate floor last week was that the legislation is giving "bus tickets" - that is, health insurance - to uninsured Americans. But there are no buses running on those routes. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.doctors01jan01,0,7827816.story
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