Congress Breaks Obama Promise on Government Role in Health Care

One of the reasons Americans are understandably wary of the current health care legislation moving through Congress is that the specifics of legislation do not match the rhetoric of the President. To defuse public suspicions, researchers at the Urban Institute recently published a study trying to pe...

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Published in:Policy File 2009
Main Author: Smith, Dennis G
Format: Report
Language:English
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Budgets/Expenditures
Government
Health care policy
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Summary:One of the reasons Americans are understandably wary of the current health care legislation moving through Congress is that the specifics of legislation do not match the rhetoric of the President. To defuse public suspicions, researchers at the Urban Institute recently published a study trying to persuade ordinary Americans that "current national health reform proposals would not cause 'a government takeover of health care.'" However, what President Obama actually promised is that reform "will keep government out of health care decisions." Like the definition of what constitutes a tax, whether the President is keeping his promise depends on how one defines the word takeover.