Repeal, A Critical Step Backward on Cost Control

News Type:
News Article
January 20, 2011
Issue Areas:
Cost, Coverage, Delivery System Reforms, Disparities, Drug and Device Cost Containment, Economic Impacts, Financing, Innovation, Insurance, Policy Implementation, Prevention & Wellness, Quality & Safety, Trends
Center for American Progress released a report on January 19, 2011, the same day the U.S. House of Representatives voted to the repeal of the health reform bill. John Gruber, MIT health economist and former Obama advisor, warns of “the enormous step backward that repeal would represent for health care in our country, for the income security of our citizens, and for the fiscal health of our government.”
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