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Obama's Health Plan Needs Spending Controls, CBO Says

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The Congressional Budget Office's Elmendorf says without spending cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals and other providers, providing coverage to the unisured will put the nation deeper into debt. Popular measures such as increasing preventative care, expanding medical records and rewarding doctors for choosing treatments that improve cost and quality have potential but its not proven how much the savings from this would be. The administration and the White House Budget Director, Peter Orszag, say they are in agreement with the CBO that something needs to be done to seriously reduce costs, reducing payments for Medicare and Medicaid to doctors and hospitals, and making other changes.

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