Concern about how a public health care plan might affect Minnesota's health care system dominated a public forum on Friday sponsored by Mayo Clinic.Read the rest of it here.
Dr. Douglas Wood, who chairs the clinic's division of Health Care Policy & Research, said a public plan modeled after the Medicare system has the potential to do serious harm to health care in states like Minnesota where quality is high and costs are low.
"If it's a government-run plan with government price controls, that could be highly detrimental to states like Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and all across the northern tier of the United States," Wood said.
The same states that will likely be hit harder by Obamacare will also be hit much harder by cap-and-tax since they are areas with high energy usage due to cold weather. The cheaper lifestyle they've enjoyed in the past may be gone forever.
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