WASHINGTON, D.C. — As health care reform legislation moves to the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say that legislation doesn’t fulfill President Obama’s promise to slow the runaway cost of health care, according to the New York Times.
Cost containment has been a main motivation behind Obama’s campaign to reform the nation’s health care system. In May, the president stood with medical industry groups that pledged voluntary efforts to cut the growth of health care spending by 1.5 percent, or $2 trillion, over the next decade, the New York Times said.
But health economists say it’s impossible to know whether the reform bills, including one passed by the House Saturday evening, would meet the president’s goal, and many are skeptical the bills would even come close, the Times said.
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Experts , such as Dr. Denis A. Cortese, chief executive of the Mayo Clinic , say the measures take only baby steps toward revamping the current fee-for-service system, which drives up costs by paying health providers for each visit or procedure performed. Some senators are also dissatisfied, the Times said.
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