Deval lies about healthcare to attack Baker and Cahill

by: Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno

Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 07:02:26 AM EST

The Eagle Tribune last month praised Baker's push for transparency in health care costs.  Where consumers would be told the actual full ocst of procedures they are having, and allow them to shop for the best deal.

Ironically enough, the report calls for "more transparency" about price and quality. This, in a report that features a glaring lack of transparency. Of course, the AG has legal cover: It's the Legislature's fault.

Also ironically, former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO and current Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker has been calling for transparency for the past five years, for the same reasons.

But yeah, it would be very helpful to know that the success rate for knee replacements is better at the community hospital five miles away than at the much more expensive metro teaching hospital 40 miles away.

But the truth doesn't fit either Deval Patrick nor Barack Obama's agenda.  Obama went on a full frontal attack on the health insurance industry yesterday.  It's not a stretch to think Patrick's attacks were coordinated with the administration.