This is an opinion item.
| Author(s)
|
Jeffrey Flier
|
| Source
|
The Wall Street Journal
|
| Date
|
November 17, 2009
|
| URL
|
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574539581994054014.html
|
| Quote
|
|
"In effect, while the legislation would enhance access to insurance, the trade-off would be an accelerated crisis of health-care costs and perpetuation of the current dysfunctional system—now with many more participants. This will make an eventual solution even more difficult. Ultimately, our capacity to innovate and develop new therapies would suffer most of all. There are important lessons to be learned from recent experience with reform in Massachusetts. Here, insurance mandates similar to those proposed in the federal legislation succeeded in expanding coverage but—despite initial predictions—increased total spending."
|
|
|
Add or change this opinion item's references
This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
