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Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' capitulation on mammograms in the face of patients who insist on the healthcare system paying for screening even when it does no good speaks ill of the Obama Administration's sincerity when it promises that its reform legislation will reduce costs in the long run. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell nevertheless repeated the estimates by the Congressional Budget Office that insuring 31m currently uninsured over the next decade will only cost the federal government $849bn--or less than $2,800 per person per year--and that federal borrowing will be $127bn lower as a consequence.
Meanwhile ABC's David Muir picked up on the same projection of healthcare cost inflation over the next decade that CBS' Jeff Glor covered Tuesday. Add together diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and cancer and the average obese American will be spending $8,300 on healthcare each year a decade from now, "that is nearly $2,500 more than people who are not overweight."
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