{"id":2161,"date":"2009-11-18T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2009-11-18T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:35:58","slug":"dean-of-harvard-medical-school-pans-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2161\/dean-of-harvard-medical-school-pans-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean of Harvard Medical School Pans ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chorus of opposition to ObamaCare is growing louder among the ranks of medical academe.\u00a0  Dr. Jeffrey Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School, says ObamaCare would receive a \u201cfailing grade\u201d at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704431804574539581994054014.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He wrote<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs upward while creating inequities for the unemployed and self-employed. A regulatory morass limits innovation. And deep flaws in Medicare and Medicaid drive spending without optimizing care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care&#8217;s dysfunctional delivery system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chorus of opposition to ObamaCare is growing louder among the ranks of medical academe.\u00a0 Dr. Jeffrey Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School, says ObamaCare would receive a \u201cfailing grade\u201d at Harvard. He wrote: Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,511,232,235,35],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-jeffrey-flier","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}