In Search of Political Courage | Capital Commentary

In Search of Political Courage | Capital Commentary by Michael J. Gerson.  MGB: On Medicare, I have always thought that the best solution was to build measures to foster the birth of more children, thus ignoring the demographic certainty of catastrophe altogether. Short of that, consolidating health care taxes into a single employer-paid consumption tax (with offsets for those who wish to self insure or get their own outside coverage) would provide more than enough competition to lower costs - although single payer would be the west way to drive these down as well, if properly empowered to bargain.