Peter Orszag versus Paul Ryan: Part Deux

“Placing those decisions in the hands of individuals and families will encourage insurance companies to offer more variety, higher quality, and more cost-effective plans to meet the needs of their customers,” Ryan says in his “Road Map.”

A Ryan aide said “the health care overhaul implemented by Mr. Orszag and the Administration treats everyone the same, and ultimately puts the government in charge of rationing their care.”

“To contain costs under this system, the government has to twist the screws through formulaic cuts, displacing individual control with bureaucratic dictates,” the aide said.

Orszag said later in his speech that “even with the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, we remain on an unsustainable fiscal course. More remains to be done.”

He also stipulated that much of the promise of Obama’s plan is contingent on full implementation.

“Mere enactment is not enough … implementation is essential,” Orszag said. “My point only is that the law includes the most promising set of potential reductions for future health care cost growth that has ever been enacted.”

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