Changing Views

Holman Jenkins of The Wall Street Journal writing about attitudes toward health care:

It's a mistake not to root political actions, even those based on "universal" principles, in their time. Two generations ago, the impetus was to extend health care to those who didn't have it. The entire industrial world is at the opposite end of an arc of government growth and sustainability today. The new impetus inevitably will be to deny health care to those whom it is not cost-effective to treat.

Denying "health care to those whom it is not cost-effective to treat" is a scary proposition altogether.