Another report from the actuary’s office at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows the price tag of the forthcoming health care policy changes coming in much higher than was promised by advocates of the new laws. So how much will these changes cost us and why were the original estimates off base? We ask Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute. She also warns of an encroaching Big Brother mentality in government, as officials in North Carolina demand to know the names of all patients with prescriptions for painkillers.
