A good talk on Health Economics in the United States

Here is a link to the former CBO Director, Peter Orszag's blog. This post links to an interesting talk on the problems with Health Care costs in the U.S. as well as the slides from the talk. Currently Orszag is the Director for the Office of Management and Budget. He is the youngest member of the Obama cabinet.

This lecture describes some of the health care challenges the U.S. will face in terms of costs. Orszag discusses how medicare and medicaid costs are projected to grow rapidly in the future, and how costs vary geographically.. Run time is a little over 30 minutes.