Max Sawicky wrote:
> In speaking of health care cost inflation, we should distinguish between
> price increases for existing services and the introduction of new more
> expensive services.  I don't know how it splits up.  In either case, more
> dough has been expended.  Much more.  The original premise of my
> comment is that spending under existing programs tends to grow.  Where
> it goes is another matter.

doesn't it matter whether increased dough goes to make bread (i.e.,
real increases) or is in effect discarded (i.e., price increases)?

> Re: the drug benefit, all the liberal angst about the program prior to passage
> seems to have evaporated in the wake of its passage.

a lot of people worked hard to make that program work. Especially the
already-overworked pharmacists.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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