Rising healthcare costs continue to threaten the struggling Massachusetts healthcare reform effort. Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Director, Jon Kingsdale, has consistently reiterated that “If we don’t grapple seriously with the cost of health care, the support for reform will erode and the perception will become broader that it is unaffordable.”
Massachusetts is facing the dilemma that we continue to point to again and again, namely, that any expansion of coverage has to be integrated with serious efforts to confront the quality question: what are we paying for? Maybe we have to go down this painful road for a while until the obvious becomes, well, obvious. Without the quality question being front and center, we’ll see less and less of the healthcare we really need since the only solution to the cost problem will be substantial cuts in healthcare benefits.
April 9, 2008 at 7:36 am
[...] us the Real Problems in Healthcare Reform April 9, 2008 — Fred Fortin So last month we wrote about how rising healthcare cost continues to threaten the struggling Massachusetts healthcare [...]