Elise Amez-Droz of the Mercatus Center writes about Biden’s budget lacking specific health-care policies:
Don’t get me wrong: Health care has gotten unbearably expensive and making it more affordable should be a priority. But there are no quick fixes to our health-care woes. The various laws proposed in the past year — such as allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and lowering the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 60 — would be financially devastating for patients. There’s no reason to lament their absence in the budget.
This is, of course, a familiar story. The federal government has a tendency to make problems worse, even with the best of intentions.
Read the whole thing here.