Massachusets: Our Health Care Future

It is rare in the policy realm where we can refer to a natural experiment. Massachussets is one such example and what this portends for the nation's future fiscal health is bleak. I think this quote from Megan McArdle sums up the issues with both the Massuchussets universal plan and Obamacare: "It's hard to simultaneously expand demand, while lowering the incentives for supply (i.e. Medicare reimbursements), without having some pretty dramatic mismatches between the two."