What an unbelievable relief to have Peter Orszag at the Office of Management and Budget. Here he is introducing Obama’s first budget:
“The single most important thing we can do to improve the long-term fiscal health of our nation is to slow the growth in healthcare costs. …the path to fiscal responsibility must pass directly through healthcare”
Orszag is one of the few people I’m aware of who really understands that the federal budget (and realistically everyone’s budget) depends on getting healthcare under control. If McCain had won in November, we would be listening to someone railing against “entitlements” and “government waste, fraud, and abuse”, and the desperate need for tax cuts.
