A Headline Tells the Single-Payer Story

Arnold Kling

By Arnold Kling, Apr 20 2007

From the Hartford (Ct.) Courant:

Universal Care Might Cost State Almost $18 Billion; Proposal Seen As Dead

Later in the story, a spokesman for the state’s governor is quoted.

“If 6 percent of the people need health insurance, the program should be focused on those 6 percent,” Cooper said.

The Left would like to blame people like Michael Cannon and me for the fact that we do not have single-payer health insurance. However, I take no credit. The idea of single-payer health insurance is self-discrediting.

Thanks to Mike Feehan for the pointer.

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Bryan Caplan

Last year, I convinced quite a few econo-bloggers to post their "class autobiographies." (Here was mine). One thoughtful reader suggested that it would have been more fruitful to build on John Calhoun's theory of class. For Calhoun, the relevant classes are not rich and poor, but "tax producers" and "tax consumers":...

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I am Not as Turned On

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More Sex (Steven E. Landsburg's new book), did not turn me on as much as it did Bryan (see here and here). I would give it a mixed review. I think that a good teacher could use some of the examples to illustrate economic thinking. However, a non-economist reading the book on his own easily could come away with the i...

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A Headline Tells the Single-Payer Story

Arnold Kling

From the Hartford (Ct.) Courant: Universal Care Might Cost State Almost $18 Billion; Proposal Seen As Dead Later in the story, a spokesman for the state's governor is quoted. "If 6 percent of the people need health insurance, the program should be focused on those 6 percent," Cooper said. The Left would like to blame...

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