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Sunday 28 June 2009

He [George Will] hasn’t addressed two very obvious objections to this: (1) just about every other advanced society pays less for health care and gets more (every citizen covered, better overall outcomes) and (2) paying more for health care does not entail getting more: A “free market” for health care services, in other words, may not produce the most rational outcomes. That “truism” may not be so true. And besides, very few people would really view their needs for basic health care as they would Cubs’ tickets. All of this amounts to a subtle change of subject: let’s not talk about (1) the uninsured, (2) the under-insured, (3) the insured but not for long, (4) the limitations of employer-based insurance on the lives of people, (5) the devastating effects of health care related bankruptcy (for people with and without insurance), (6) the empirically verifiable existence of vastly superior systems, (7) the rationing of health care to people who pay tons for it in a “free market,” and (8) much more… John Casey

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