Many of the precepts on which health reform efforts are basedare nothing more than myths. ShiftShapers guest Greg Scandlenexplodes 30 of those myths and why those incorrect assumptionscontinually doom efforts at health care reform.

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Based on flawed research, incorrect assumptions and flimsyevidence, these myths may make great bumper stickers but they yieldmiserably screwed up health care policy. Greg’s newbook, Myth Busters: Why Health Reform Always GoesAway explores those falseassumptions. From Roemer’s Law more than 50 years agoto the “crisis of the uninsured” to small group reform in the ’90sand today’s “reform” discussions, our guest believes that it wasinevitable that we find ourselves in such a mess.

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Related: Industryinsiders ponder AHCA impact on group market

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Greg discusses how academics in government agencies stir up fakecrises and issue ineffective resolutions. He also digs into theoft-repeated idea that greedy doctors are the problem and othercommon yet flawed assumptions about healthcare. Listen in and getyour myths busted!

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