Obama's AMA Speech and Media Response

Regular New York Times contributor and Costs of Care team member Ariana Green recently summarized the media response to President Obama's AMA speech on the Costs of Care blog:

In the wake of President Obama’s speech in front of the American Medical Association, various interesting conversations about health care costs have occurred in national media. The New York Times ran an editorial on what could be done so that doctors no longer feel they need to order potentially unnecessary tests to protect themselves against malpractice suits. The Times also ran a story scrutinizing the health care “rationing” rhetoric.

On NPR, health care was the topic of the day following Obama’s address. It’s worth listening to On Point’s show where professors and journalists field questions about the feasibility of reform. Also interesting is Talk of the Nation’s examination of whether doctors are the "problem" in terms of driving high cost care .

Lastly, here is a reported piece on a model, low-cost county.