Who Attends You When You Are Ill?

"The "Iron Triangle" theory of health care policy, which claims that one can achieve, at most, two of the three goals of high quality, universal access, and cost containment, has a number of influential adherents. Bloomberg Government hosted an April 2011 event entitled "The Iron Triangle of Healthcare,"1 which reportedly featured an examination of the "interrelationship between cost, access and quality in the U.S. health care system" and such speakers as the Secretary of Health and Human Services and a number of widely known people from government and business trade associations."