Health Care Cost from the New Yorker

Here is an article from the New Yorker about health care cost. The author draws an analogy between Health Care today and American agriculture around 1900 to make the argument that Health Care may become more efficient and cheaper on it's own, even though the current legislation before Congress does not do very much to control the cost of health care. I would like to believe that this is true, but I am not sure that it is.