Mark Warner: How can we afford reform & control costs?

Senator Warner answers the commonly asked question of how we can reform health care and control costs. For more information, visit http://warner.senate.gov/healthcare

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[scwallac]

Uhhhh....if Docs are "incentivized" for "good health outcomes"...then won't this lead to Doctors tailoring their patient roster and geographical location to primarily serve the young and healthy? Wouldn't this make it harder for people who actually NEED health care to get it? And, where would you propose to find the people who will judge what a "good health outcome" is and how much a doctor's "incentive" payout should be?

This is among the most most asinine ideas I've ever heard.

[usualfighter]

Not going to sign a bill that's not paid for? How then is it being paid for?

Small and growing (trying to) business owners like myself that make up the strength of the economy are gonna be beat down even further by taxes to pay for it and penalized if we try grow. It's an incentive for us to stay to stay poor and fail.

There is a reasonable regulation and an overreaching control... this is the latter, and as a resident of Virginia and someone you represent, I ask please vote against it.

[reedwtaylor]

The problem with hospital readmissions of the elderly is driven by inadequate Government-run Medicare reimbursements. The more Big Government we get into the system the worse it will run.

You can not control costs of medical care without Tort Reform. Taking Tort Reform off the table (without significant opposition from Republicans) only shows the power of special interests. Trial Lawyers are obviously paying off both sides. Ignoring costs of defensive medicine only makes the problem worse