Another Way to Attack Rising Healthcare Costs  Give consumers a
cost-benefit analysis of expensive procedures.   Arnold Kling of
EconLog proposes one possible solution to rising healthcare
costs:  If you're serious about cutting costs in government-
funded health care programs, then you're serious about having
government say "no" to a lot of procedures where now it says
"yes." What that means is that "Medicare for all" does not mean
Medicare-as-we-know-it for all. It means something else. Call it
Medicare-Minus for all.... So I actually propose a Medical
Guidelines Commission to obtain and analyze statistics on the
impact of medical procedures and then present the results in
terms that doctors and patients can understand. I think that in
order to cut back on the use of procedures with high costs and
low benefits, we need to give consumers the means, the motive,
and the opportunity to make different decisions.  health care
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