The Obama administration is eagerly announcing a deal with several major hospital organizations that it claims will trim $155 billion in health care costs in the coming years – provided Congress approves a major health care reform plan. But how do these “savings” actually work? is this really a savings for you the taxpayer? And even if these cuts happen, is there and reason to believe the Democratic version of reform would reduce our national deficit in the years ahead? We ask Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute and one of the leading national advocates for market-based health care reform.
