The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Ailing Health Care

This oped writer for the NY Times is going to tackleissues related to health care spending over the next few weeks.While I agree with some of the premises in this first piece, the fact that near the end of the articles, the author praises the VA as "lean and efficient" makes me leery...
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Ailing Health Care: "Rising health care spending isn't primarily the result of medical price inflation. It's primarily a response to innovation: the range of things that medicine can do keeps increasing"

So what's the problem? Why not welcome medical progress, and consider its costs money well spent? There are three answers.

1.First, America's traditional private health insurance system, in which workers get coverage through their employers, is unraveling...
2.Rising Medicare spending may be a sign of progress, but it still must be paid for...
3.Finally, the U.S. health care system is wildly inefficient...

Over the next few weeks I'll back up these assertions, and talk about what a workable health care reform might look like, if we can get ideology out of the way.