Health Care Costs Will Only Get Worse

The Democrats' health care legislation, however, puts more distance between Americans and the payment process and promotes dependence on government. That will only drive down consumers' out-of-pocket expenses even further and force overall health care spending upward. Under such a regime, the system will be worse off than it is now.

From an Investor's Business Daily editorial, "Once Patients Pay, Health Costs Will Fall."

Copy of IBD article also at Carpe Diem by Mark Perry.

(HT: Mark Perry and Carpe Diem).