A Wall Street Journal op-ed tells a story that could be problematic for the Affordable Care Act.
What are the appropriate tradeoffs among the three principal goals of welfare—securing adequate benefits for needy children, providing incentives that induce desired behavior in welfare recipients, and keeping public costs within acceptable bounds? These goals are linked in a relationship that David Stockman (President Reagan’s budget director) christened the “iron triangle.” Government cannot change one element of the relationship without affecting the other two.
A Washington Post story illustrates the health care tradeoff triangle:
Robert Laszewski, an industry consultant, said he thinks the rise in rates was inevitable. The new law, he said, has resulted in an estimated 30 to 50 percent increase in baseline costs for insurers.Getting Information from People and Documents
“We’ve got increased access for sick people and an increase in the span of benefits, so something’s got to give,” he said.
- Networking and "Subformal Warning Systems"
- Some initial steps
- Locating sources:
| People leading to… | Documents leading to… | |
| People | "To whom else should I talk?" | "How do I find the author?" |
| Documents | "What else should I read?" | "How do I track this source?" |
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