How managed care could coopt the public sector.

Abstract

Since current public officials lack the courage and political will to significantly raise payroll taxes or constrain Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits, it can be expected that long-term deficit spending will continue, effecting a predictable series of events that have strong, negative ramifications for the American health care system. The author suggests modifications to how our nation's health system should be organized and financed in order to avert these dire predictions.