Healthcare: Host the Bill Lowers Costs

I have noted before that the bill contains all the main reform ideas out there to reduce health care cost growth over time — in addition to the deficit reduction it achieves even in its first decade.

If you look at the policy options CBO assessed as having the biggest potential for reducing long-term health care cost-growth, you will see that a vast majority of these proposals are, in some form, part of the historic health care reform legislation the President signed into law last week, including: ...

For the list, see Following Doctor’s Orders by Peter R. Orszag, April 1, 2010.