Health Care, Safeway Style

Published January 19, 2010 12:06am ET



On Sunday, the Washington Post tried to discredit the Safeway model of health care reform — clearly hoping to make ObamaCare look better in comparison.But if one reads the story carefully, it offers further evidence of the wisdom of the Safeway approach and the folly of ObamaCare.

The Post takes Safeway CEO Steven Burd to task for claiming that Safeway held health costs “constant” for four years. In fact, the Post reports, Safeway’s costs actually rose 2 percent over that period — or 0.5 percent per year. If only the Democrats’ claims about ObamaCare were accurate within that margin of error.

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