Everyone who has an interest on the Congressional approaches to health care reform should read the current issue of ‘Health Affairs’ and note the monetary costs of the various approaches. In the papers we find the expectation that the reforms would consume more than 50% of GDP, while others show that in 75 years the reforms would cost more than the entire GDP. It is clear that the various activists have never taken economics 101. The financial projections indicate totally unrealistic expectations for reform,. There have to be limits to new expenditures. Anyway you wish to make changes there has to be some form of rationing. There also has to be some reduction in money devoted to research. Too much research money funneled to medical schools results in too little immediate benefit to the public but solves much of the fiscal problems of the teaching hospitals.
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