Obama Health Care Bill Biggest Boondoggle in History?

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Steve Brill

[From transcript]
Steven Brill: Good news: More people are gonna get health care. Bad news: We have no way in the world that we're gonna be able to pay for it.
Steven Brill says that the outrage is what the Affordable Care Act doesn't do.
Steven Brill: It doesn't do anything on medical malpractice reform. It doesn't do anything to control drug prices. It doesn't do anything to control hospital profits.
Lesley Stahl: So all the cost controlling side of this just went by the wayside?
Steven Brill: 99 percent of it.
Brill learned that when it came to controlling costs, the White House was told up front--
Steven Brill: If you go after costs, you're never going to get anything passed because the lobbyists will just not allow it to be passed.
Lesley Stahl: So let's go through what each entity won.
Steven Brill: The drug companies they were going to get $200-plus billion worth of new customers able to pay for drugs. They were going to avoid the calamity of the real reforms that they were worried about: price controls generally.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obamacare-60-minutes/

Dissecting Obamacare
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, everyone with a stake in the $3-trillion-a-year health industry came out ahead -- except the taxpayers, says author Steven Brill
CBS News 60 Minutes
January 11, 2015

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[From article]
In an interview with NPR, Steven Brill, author of “America’s Bitter Pill,” slammed the White House for its Obamacare launch, saying there has “never been a group of people who more incompetently launched something.”
Brill’s premiere Obamacare critique, as he tells host Terry Gross, is that the health care overhaul is “emblematic of what’s eating away at our country,” pointing directly to the politics and the “challenge of governance” it presents. Brill also told NPR that President Obama was largely protected by the likes of Valerie Jarrett, and had no idea of the issues until they ultimately reared their head.


http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/09/obamacare-author-rips-obama-admin-valerie-jarrett-for-incompetence-protecting-potus-audio/

Obamacare Expert Rips Obama Admin, Valerie Jarrett For ‘Incompetence,’ ‘Protecting’ POTUS [AUDIO]
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