Commentary
Your health care in California is about to get worse and more expensive. That’s because Senate Bill 184, signed into law on June 30 by Gov. Gavin Newsom, establishes a new government bureaucracy, the Office of Health Care Affordability. Like all government bureaucracies, it’s guaranteed to metastasize and increase costs.
A Fact Sheet released July 18 by the new office explained its purpose: “The Office of Health Care Affordability will be charged with collecting data on total health care expenditures, analyzing the health care market for cost trends and drivers of spending, creating a state strategy for controlling the cost of health care and ensuring affordability for consumers and purchasers, and enforcing cost targets.”…