Former President Bill Clinton was in Chicago, and Evanston Friday, and he says U.S. spending on health care is dragging down the nation's competitiveness, particularly in the auto industry. The former President spoke on Friday in Evanston at a forum on health care sponsored by Huron Consulting Group and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He told an audience of hospital administrators that when it comes to health care, no one in the world spends more money than the United States, yet many people are without quality health care.“We have made decisions as a society pretending that we weren’t making them, that it is more important to us to let the healthcare financing tail wag the healthcare dog than it is to maintain a competitive automobile industry or insure all Americans, or improve the quality of healthcare,” Clinton said. “Now that’s the truth.”The former president says he would gladly give up his share of the Bush administration's tax cut to help Detroit auto makers with its legacy of high health care costs. Clinton also talked about the health crisis affecting school children. He says schools should measure the body mass index of students and give the results to parents. Clinton says his recent success in brokering an agreement to get soft drinks out of schools is an example of an approach it will take to solve the nation's health care problems.
John Berkowitz of Medequote www.medequote.com comments, "Exactly how he hopes to help reduce health care costs is a mystery without goverment subsidies which would be unheralded for upper middle class factory workers, is he saying the goverment should chip in on employee health insurance costs to reduce the cost of it for fortune 500 companies?"
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