Opinion: The health policy cult’s misplaced faith in government
If the past teaches us anything, it is that no one should expect the government to get health care right.
Mainstream policy analysts are convinced that government, and only government, can save us from the monster the U.S. health care system has become. That’s why their recommended solutions to the system’s many problems all have government at their core.
Consider the first set of recently published recommendations of a star-studded panel assembled by the National Academy of Medicine for its quadrennial Vital Directions report:
