Recent Health Care Reforms: Liberal Doses of Snake Oil

Between the minute-to-minute tactical maneuvering, partisan role-playing to the media, and legal-semantic battles at the Supreme Court level, serious thinkers can easily be seduced away from policy and outcomes to focus solely on the score in the game of politics. In health care, this might result in losing sight of what matters (the welfare of our nation) for what doesn’t – today’s winner.