Uncle Sam’s Dangerous Prescriptions

Second only to the energy crisis as a source of daily bombast in the nation’s capital is the subject of rising health-care costs—hospital charges in particular.

Though you would never guess it from the flow of media comment suggesting the problem has somehow descended on us from outer space, the cause of the health-care cost explosion is well defined and amply documented. That cause, in brief, is the Federal Government (yes, Virginia, the selfsame government that is currently bullyragging other people in a supposed effort to resolve the difficulty).