Platitudes

So here's all you need to know about the White House healthcare summit:

- Health care costs are out of control

- Coverage is unaffordable

- We need to invest in quality and prevention and provide incentives for both

- Health IT will allow us to deliver better care at a  lower cost

- We need to increase access and increase spending on prevention  (but all of the above cost money) 
 
Is there enough overutlization to pay for underutilization?

Are there enough smart people in that room to decide what is overutilized and underutilized?

Hardly.