In the NYT, Tyler Cowen dares Obama to put up or shut up: Medicare expenditures threaten to crush the federal budget, yet the Obama administration is proposing that we start by spending more now so we can spend less later. … Obama administration talks of empowering an independent board of experts to judge the comparative effectiveness of health care expenditures …
Articles like these can create the political cover that Obama needs to make cuts while taking less of the blame - so how can we make the call for greater cuts louder?
Tyler Dares Obama
Articles like these can create the political cover that Obama needs to make cuts while taking less of the blame - so how can we make the call for greater cuts louder?
Anon, he can of course make it clear he will veto a bill that doesn't meet conditions he sets.
Obama supports giving MedPAC the power to make those cuts. I'm not sure what more he can do.