We really liked this piece by James Kvaal at the Center for American Progress on health care costs. We've made a lot of the same points ourselves (in fact he quotes one of our studies) we liked how he pulled it all together, and agreed with his conclusion: "Health reform can generate large economic benefits." See for yourself.

CAP also has a memo on some of what went wrong in 1994. We do see some differences this time around, a potentially constructive dialogue unfolding with some interest groups that blocked reform in the 90s, new leaders at some of these organizations who are making a different assessment of health care's role in economic recovery. So we don't think history is doomed to repeat itself; we hope it won't. Still, it doesn't hurt to look back and remember where we've come from and hope we don't go there again.