Now five years into the Massachusetts plan, Governor Deval Patrick is about to sign into law a far-reaching cost containment bill that will create an 11-member Health Policy Commission very similar to IPAB except that it will astonishing power to control the practice and organization of medicine.
"The resurrection of New York, hit in its very flesh and its pride by the September 11, 2001 attacks, is nothing short of astonishing, " wrote Jean-Louis Cohen in the program's introduction.