<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da76fea4-6a6a-4a87-8cc0-caa7b86aa625/E7B6F7B8-6DFC-4EAB-9E8A-71E7804B0FAE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDU3MTE1MDUwYWUwYTViODUyYWMxNmE0YWI4MDczZTE=" href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDU3MTE1MDUwYWUwYTViODUyYWMxNmE0YWI4MDczZTE=" style="font-size: 11px;">corner.nationalreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDU3MTE1MDUwYWUwYTViODUyYWMxNmE0YWI4MDczZTE="><SPAN class="blog_title">Health Care Shenanigans</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDU3MTE1MDUwYWUwYTViODUyYWMxNmE0YWI4MDczZTE="><P class="blog_text">The “clarification” of the agreement between health industry leaders and the White House offered by the American Hospital Association yesterday is really staggering. According to the <A href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22559.html">story</A> Kathryn links below, AHA president Richard Umbdenstock told his members that Obama had misstated the agreement: that it wasn’t to reduce the growth of health care costs by 1.5%  per year for ten years, but rather to reduce that growth by 1.5% in total over ten years.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDU3MTE1MDUwYWUwYTViODUyYWMxNmE0YWI4MDczZTE="><P>The Washington office of the American Hospital Association sent a bulletin to its state and local affiliates to “clarify several points” about the White House meeting. In the bulletin, Richard J. Pollack, the executive vice president of the hospital association, said: “The A.H.A. did not commit to support the ‘Obama health plan’ or budget. No such reform plan exists at this time.” Moreover, Mr. Pollack wrote, “The groups did not support reducing the rate of health spending by 1.5 percentage points annually.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E7B6F7B8-6DFC-4EAB-9E8A-71E7804B0FAE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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