In the first part of
this two-part piece, I noted that the hot issue-within-an-issue for
Washington health care wonks is "bending the curve" on health care
costs--that is, reducing future increases.
Even Barack Obama is talking the "bend" talk. In an interview with The Washington Post
in July, the president used the "b-word" no less than 11 times. In this
particular passage, he said that he wants to "bend" the cost curve, not
only for government expenditures, but also for private-sector
expenditures: