Of NICE and Men - WSJ.com

Or, "How the so-called public option really reduces health care costs."
The short answer? Rationing. From the Wall Street Journal article regarding the U.K.'s version of public-provided health care which Democrats wish to model, "it has by now established the principle that the only way to control health-care costs is for this panel of medical high priests to dictate limits on certain kinds of care to certain classes of patients."
"...The core issue is whether those decisions are going to be dictated by the brute force of politics (NICE) or by prices (a private insurance system)."
And when contemplating the "brute force of politics," recall that President Obama built his political career in Chicago as you ponder this quote from the film The Untouchables:
"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."

From the Wall Street Journal, Of NICE and Men