That’s Not Healthy: Poverty Is a Salve for ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate?

Some tidbits from the health care policy world:

• Philip Klein is perhaps too kind to the Obama administration’s latest defense of ObamaCare in “Obama solicitor general: If you don’t like mandate, earn less money.”
• The Obama administration launches a hospital payment reform effort that, rather than promote high‐​quality, low‐​cost medical care, will demonstrate once again why Medicare is incapable of such.
• The physicians lobby, having thrown its support behind ObamaCare with the expectation that Congress would jack up Medicare’s physician price controls, is still begging Congress to do so.
• The Obama administration launches a lame effort to reduce medical errors in Medicaid, decades after markets devised far more powerful deterrents.