Democracy versus Bureaucracy | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary

Democracy versus Bureaucracy | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary: 'One provision of the new health care law empowers unelected panels of technocrats to make reductions in Medicare benefits each year in order to hit budget targets. This enables the politicians to claim they are not responsible for the cuts, but someone behind the tree is.'

'Control by the electorate in the United States will continue to diminish as long as the people demand more from government than they (not someone else) are willing to pay for and the economy can support.'