Funny Business Ahead in Massachusetts?

Over at the Manhattan Institute, Paul Howard recently blogged on Massachusetts’ move towards a price cap on health care growth.  The whole piece is worth reading, but he makes one great point that has not be explored enough in Massachusetts:

Bay State legislators are betting that you can reform 20% of the economy from the supply side, with very little involvement from the demand side (the patients). (For more detail, see this post.)

It also assumes that commissions and technocrats recruited from industry, hospitals, and academia won’t play favorites, or be pressured by interest groups into supporting pet projects and institutions. Good luck with that.

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