In The Red

Jonathan Bernstein eyes the deficit:

If it's true that long-term deficits are mostly driven by health carecosts (and I tend to believe that), then the same logic that drove theACA could easily appear again in a (Democratic-majority) future, withthe Dems simply shifting their interest group alliances and hitting oneof the groups (doctors, hospitals, drug manufacturers) that they cut adeal with this time around.  The logic, that is, would be thatDemocrats and groups allied with the Democrats...