Monday, July 20, 2009
Parsing the Health Reform Arguments - WSJ.com
This writer, an economist, takes many of those "sound bite phrases" we hear and applies common sense to each of them.
That common sense helps to see things differently (and more accurately)...
That common sense helps to see things differently (and more accurately)...
In the Wall Street Journal, George Newman begins his opinion column with:
"The health-care debate continues. We have now heard from nearly all the politicians, experts and interested parties: doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurance companies, even constitutional lawyers (though not, significantly, from trial lawyers, who know full well 'change' is not coming to their practices). Here is how one humble economist sees some of the main arguments, which I have paraphrased below:"
