You, Your Doctor, and Peter Orszag

As Dr. Gratzer points out, to bend the curve the White House will have to fundamentally change the way that health care is being delivered, but don't think for a second they will do this in a good way. We'll see that resources are distributed along the line of Quality-Adjusted Life Year, where Quality will equal how much "life as a taxpayer" you have left. If a treatment will keep you paying taxes for a long time, the IMAC will let you have it. But, if you're 64, don't be so sure. That's likely why congress will NOT be mandated into the public option plans, but government workers will.
Like nearly every other industry (and health care is an industry, don't kid yourselves) it is proven time and time again that competition and free...