by Carl McDonald and James Naklicki
The current health reform legislation has a lot of objectives, but two key goals are to provide coverage to all Americans and to control the growth in health care cost trends. The legislation currently pending in Congress would achieve partial success in covering more people, but we think it will fail miserably in slowing health care costs. Because there's so little in the bill that actually deals with cost, we wouldn't be surprised if reform actually caused health care trends to accelerate more than if we'd done nothing. And so while health reform is laudable for its efforts to cover more people, it just isn't a very good outcome for the country.
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