ICDs: "The poster child of covert rationing"

DrRich explains why:

. . . they are also a particularly compelling example of how covert rationing inherently fosters waste, profligacy, inefficiency, and tangled and counterproductive incentives, throughout the healthcare system – even in the private sector, whose proponents invariably extol its natural efficiency.

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