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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently unveiled a new health care reform bill, but AEI's Joesph Antos argues that whatever form the final health bill takes, there will be no significant changes in the payment or delivery methods that have caused soaring health care costs. He says, "this is disappointing, but not surprising given the political forces at work." Instead of lowering health care costs, Antos says, "reform proposals will increase total health spending . . . even assuming Medicare fee cuts that are unlikely to be implemented fully." Meanwhile, AEI's Newt Gingrich writes that fewer Americans support the idea of government-run health care today than they did two years ago. And AEI's Michael Barone questions "how Barack Obama and congressional Democratic leaders decided to make expensive health care legislation a No. 1 priority at a time when the nation was facing enervating unemployment."
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