Experts Agree Cutting Health Care Costs Needs More Exposure

When lawmakers return next week to start back on figuring out how to reform health care, a group of medical experts say that they need to start finding better ways to reduce health care costs.
All the buzz has been about the public option being proposed. The public option proposal has not been getting the support President Obama thought it would and how to cut health care costs unfortunately has taken a back seat.
A group of health experts representing many companies including Cigna Corp, UnitedHealth Group Inc and Aetna Inc say that lawmakers need to get back on track to figure out how to cut health care costs and that is one of the largest problems with health care today. They feel health care would be more accessible to everyone if costs were curbed. Some proposals they suggest are restructuring Medicare for the elderly, providing health insurance pools for employees that are not offered insurance, and offering doctors incentives for avoiding unnecessary and costly procedures.
"It's not good enough that it's just paid for; it actually has to start driving long-term costs down" Posted August 13, 2009
This quote by Sen. Mark Warner echoes what America is feeling. Obama is busy with town hall meetings trying to rally support for his health care reform bill. One of the main points he has been emphasizing is the inclusion of people with pre-existing conditions when purchasing health insurance. Unfortunately for Obama this is not enough for Americans to stand behind his health care reform bill.
With an economy that most Americans feel is still depressed and the huge budget deficit that Americans realize makes us indebted to other countries, most are wanting more information on how Obama's health care reform bill is really going to keep health care costs down and feel they still have not received a straight answer.