Everyone has an opinion on the ultimate mark health reform will make on the economy, the delivery of healthcare, and its impact on patients. Most of those musings can be easily taken with the largest of grains, except those from whom opinions really do matter: healthcare thought leaders and policymakers in Massachusetts — the government-sponsored healthcare proving ground. For all of the song and dance on impact on care quality, disruptive innovation, rationed care, and an altered competitive healthcare marketplace; one aspect on these arguments always comes shining through: nervousness over cost and who will have to suffer the least to come out as if reform never occurred. One thing’s for sure. It probably won’t be the patient. | LINK

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