[image-1]Today, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove outlined a sense of trepidation about the new Republican-scripted health care bill. He appeared on a thing called “Squawk Box” on CNBC and levied concerns about how patients may be paying more and getting less under this proposal.

Watch the video below.

As a quick primer, the New York Times has sketched out the aspects of the Affordable Care Act that will be repealed, changed or left alone. It’s a handy guide, and it shows that the core of the Republican bill is an emphasis on health savings accounts — high-deductible (and tax-deductible) plans that implicitly benefit wealthier consumers.

“The bill that it is right now, I’m concerned that it’s going to wind up costing the actual patients — they’re not going to get the sort of coverage they need,” Cosgrove said.


This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2017.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

One reply on “Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove is ‘Concerned’ About New Health Care Bill”

  1. Well, ol’ Toby has a VIP pass into the White House through his spot on the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum. Let’s see if he has the guts to challenge The Don on this ill-conceived monstrosity masquerading as a practical piece of legislation….since the intoxication of being a major player inside The Beltway often means keeping one’s mouth firmly shut for a wide and greasy smile.

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