At best, they are seeking ways to keep health-care spending from rising, as though the genie of medical progress can be forced back into the bottle. Instead, governments should embrace the promise of wonderful innovations in health care, and ask how fast spending should rise, and how that rise should be financed.
往好里说，他们是在搜寻防止医疗开支上升的方法，好像这样就能把医学进步的精灵赶回到瓶子里面。相反，政府应该充分利用医疗领域精彩创新的前景，弄清开支到底能增长多快，以及如何才能加以满足。