To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, February 17, 2025

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Yes, Let Government Control Medical Costs

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BY FROMA HARROP “Centralizers,” a conservative wrote disapprovingly in Reason magazine, “say that the responsibility for making tough decisions about how to keep health care costs under control ought to be made by enlightened, well-intentioned policy elites.” I don’t know. These “elites” beat the heck out of corporate interests trying to sell me treatments I don’t need or whose results can be duplicated at far lower cost. Author Peter Suderman was touting “consumer-driven health care.” […]

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Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.