If you indemnify the pharmaceutical companies against reducing their revenues (at least beyond a certain, pre-agreed to point), you rescind the scheduled cuts in compensation to physicians and hospitals, and promise people that they’ll be able to keep their current healthcare insurance (which implicitly means that you’ve promised to limit any reductions in insurance companies’ revenues), how, exactly, can you control the increase in healthcare costs?
Magic dust?
To be honest I think this sort of thing is the result of supreme self-confidence—being so confident that you’ll be able to renegotiate later you’re willing to sacrifice a pawn to secure the strategic victory later.
But what if you’re wrong?
