Now that the Supreme Court has found the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandateconstitutional, there is a danger that we will revert to our old health-care politics — Republicans warning about “death panels” and socialized medicine, and Democrats wanting more tax revenue to protect Medicare.

All of that misses the point. Medicare costs per beneficiary grew by 5.5 percent annually from 2000 to 2011 (excluding the costs of Medicare Part D). Over the next 75 years, they are projected to grow at a slower rate, 4.3 percent annually, as Congress stops its annual “doc-fix” avoidance of its own legally required reductions in physician payments and as the ACA’s cost-control experiments prove effective.

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