I’m not alone in my skepticism over Congress’s willingness to relinquish power over Medicare whether it saves money or not. Here’s Mickey’s Kaus’s tweets on the subject:
Time’s Tumulty says H. Reid quietly emasculated Obama’s pet cost-cutting “Fed for Med” panel by fiddling with trigger. http://tiny.cc/0hod7 Heh! … The idea that Congress would give up power over Medicare (think mammograms) to a panel of experts was always an Orszagian fantasy. Nor should we want it to. … (If you believe Orszag will bend the cost curve you maybe also believe that Uri Geller bends spoons.)