“Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. To make it happen, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, made an expedient choice, deferring until another day any serious effort to control the state’s runaway health costs. The day of reckoning has arrived…. [G]overnment and industry officials agree that the plan will not be sustainable over the next 5 to 10 years if they do not take significant steps to arrest the growth of health spending.” (New York Times, Sunday)
A sign of things to come.
FEE Timely Classic
“Coercion Is the Only Way to Ensure Health? It Just Ain’t So!” by Aeon J. Skoble