Zombie Public Option Puts Stake In Heart of Health Care Costs?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :-) "The Colbert Report" this week found something a little ghoulish about the resurrection of the public option just in time for Halloween, though, as I argue in this video, the public option may be necessary to kill the real monster threatening the United States: rising health care costs. The short clip from "The Colbert Report" I use in this video comes from a segment broadcast on Comedy Central on October 29, 2009, currently available in full at http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/253997/october-29-2009/threatdown---halloween-edition The image of the bar graph comparing US health care spending to the spending in the other 29 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a public domain image available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/International_Comparison_-_Healthcare_spending_as_%_GDP.png The original source of that graph (along with a lot of other great information) is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/CEA_Health_Care_Report.pdf The images from the 2004 article in Health Affairs titled "How Does The Quality Of Care Compare In Five Countries?" come from the document available online at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/23/3/89

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YouTube | October 30, 2009

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