Tribune Editorial: When spending less is better medicine

The Gordian knot of health care in the United States (other First World nations solved this problem generations ago) is the reasonable fear that the only way to reduce the crippling cost of medicine is to deliver less of it.Thus did the lie that Sarah Palin told about what was to become the Affordable Care Act — that the value of Grandma’s life would be weighed by Obamacare Death Panels — gain a lot of traction in the popular imagination.But the truth of the ACA is reflected in