GOOD LINK TO THE DARTMOUTH HEALTH SYSTEM STUDY

and a few related publications and an interesting statistic from David Ignatius of the WaPo:

At current spending rates, Medicare will run a $660 billion deficit by 2023. But by cutting the annual growth in per-capita spending from the current national average of 3.5 percent to 2.4 percent (the rate in San Francisco, for example), Medicare could save $1.42 trillion and post a big surplus.