U.S. PIRG Urges Fiscal Commission to Contain Health Costs

News Type:

News Article

July 13, 2010

Issue Areas:

Cost, Delivery System Reforms, Policy Implementation

Coalition Partner:

U.S. PIRG

In a new In The Public Interest column in The Huffington Post on July 13, Larry McNeely, Health Care Advocate for U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), writes about the federal deficit, the Fiscal Commission, and health cost savings through health reform. He urges the Fiscal Commission to recommend further steps to hold down health care costs.

McNeely writes, “The Commission's recommendations, due out this December, could be a critically important step toward tackling the country's fiscal woes. That's why it's important to show what's beneath the mask of fiscal rectitude that the repeal-supporters like to wear.”