Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Complaints about rising Health Care Costs from the Harvard Professors who educated the President!


This gift of hypocrisy from the credentialed, liberal moral frauds who promoted the President's singular failure is absolutely priceless.

Or, Harvard profs declare: Obamacare parked its car in our back yard!  PB
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Excerpts from "Harvard Ideas on Health Care Hit Home, Hard" in the New York Times:

In addition, some ideas that looked good to academia in theory are now causing consternation...

"deplorable, deeply regressive...”

"timed to come at precisely the moment when you are sick, stressed...”

Jerry R. Green, a professor of economics and a former provost who has been on the Harvard faculty for more than four decades, said the new out-of-pocket costs could lead people to defer medical care or diagnostic tests, causing more serious illnesses and costly complications in the future.

It’s equivalent to taxing the sick,” Professor Green said. “I don’t think there’s any government in the world that would tax the sick...”

“It seems that Harvard is trying to save money by shifting costs to sick people,” said Mary C. Waters, a professor of sociology.

“I don’t understand why a university with Harvard’s incredible resources would do this. What is the crisis?
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Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?

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