{"id":447927,"date":"2010-03-19T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/03\/19\/health-cares-dueling-economists\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:12:30","slug":"health-care%e2%80%99s-dueling-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447927","title":{"rendered":"Health Care\u2019s Dueling Economists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, President Barack Obama<\/strong> touted a letter sent by economists backing the Democrats’ health-care legislation. Not to be outdone, House Minority Leader John Boehner<\/strong> released his own economists’ letter opposed to the overhaul.<\/p>\n

From the president’s letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The health care reforms passed by the House and Senate — with recent modifications proposed by President Obama — include serious measures that will slow the growth of health care spending. Putting the brakes on health care spending will take multiple measures, and we must start now. Democratic and Republican experts have proposed many different approaches to \u0093bending the cost curve.\u0094 The President’s proposal incorporates a long list of measures that will control rising costs and reinforce each other.<\/em><\/p>\n

From Rep. Boehner’s letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As early as this week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Senate-passed health care bill as well as a reconciliation package making changes to the bill. While Speaker Pelosi asserts that health care reform will create four million jobs, we disagree. In our view, the health care bill contains a number of provisions that will eliminate jobs, reduce hours and wages, and limit future job creation.<\/em><\/p>\n

The links above include the full list of signatories.<\/p>\n

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Last week, President Barack Obama touted a letter sent by economists backing the Democrats’ health-care legislation. Not to be outdone, House Minority Leader John Boehner released his own economists’ letter opposed to the overhaul. From the president’s letter: The health care reforms passed by the House and Senate — with recent modifications proposed by President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}