McArdle:

by Little Miss Attila on July 23, 2009

on that weird notion that we will have future Medicare/VA/Armed Forces medical savings, once we simply give the government greater control over health as a whole:

The insistence, now, that conservatives arguing against the plans on the table have to take into account hypothetical potential cost savings that have so far proven politically and bureaucratically unworkable, is a case in point. Conservatives are perfectly within their rights to argue that these plans right here do nothing to bend the cost curve, and in fact, quite noticeably increase the structural fiscal instability of the US budget. If you want to talk about awesome future cost savings, pass them. Otherwise, you have to defend the actual bills we might pass, not some better bills that we haven’t and probably won’t.

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