Health care debate heats up

David Brooks has some thoughts on how health care incentives are driving up costs, and how from his perspective the bills in Congress will make things worse instead of better. I think this is a pivotal debate -- will the "public option" and all the reforms that Pres. Obama is pushing actually cut down costs? I don't know the answer to this question, but I do know that if we don't cut down costs, we're all in trouble. The policy wonks who are designing the reforms right now are interceding in such a large part of the economy that the numbers are pretty scary -- more than a trillion dollars, by some estimates. Let's hope they get it right.